Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HINTON-MARTELL, or Hinton-Magna

HINTON-MARTELL, or Hinton-Magna, a parish in Wimborne district, Dorset; 4 miles N by E of Wimborne town and r. station. It has a post office, of the name of Hinton-Martell, under Wimborne. Acres, 1, 534. Real property, £2, 003. Pop., 357. Houses, 85. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to the Earl of Shaftesbury. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £331.* Patron, the Earl of Shaftesbury. The church is very ancient, and in tolerable condition. There is a national school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Hinton Martell AP/CP       Wimborne and Cranborne RegD/PLU       Dorset AncC
Place names: HINTON MAGNA     |     HINTON MARTELL     |     HINTON MARTELL OR HINTON MAGNA
Place: Hinton Martell

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