In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hinton Waldrist like this:
HINTON-WALDRIST, or HINTON-ST. WALERY, a village and a parish in Faringdon district, Berks. The village stands near the river Isis at the boundary with Oxford, 5¾ miles NNW of Wantage-Road r. station and 6½ ENE of Great Faringdon; and was once a market town. The parish contains also the hamlet of Duxford. ...
Post town, Faringdon. Acres, 2, 180. Real property, £4, 367. Pop., 329. Houses, 67. The property, with Hinton House, belongs to J. L. Symonds, Esq. Buildingstone is quarried. Traces of an ancient camp are near Windmill hill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £470.* Patron, J. L. Symonds, EsqThe church is cruciform, very ancient, and in very mixed styles of architecture, chiefly early English; has a W tower; and, excepting the nave, was all recently restored.
Hinton Waldrist through time
Hinton Waldrist is now part of Vale of White Horse district. Click here for graphs and data of how Vale of White Horse has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Hinton Waldrist itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Hinton Waldrist, in Vale of White Horse and Berkshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3279
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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