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Hinton on the Green, Gloucestershire

Historical Description

Hinton-on-the-Green, a village and a parish in Gloucestershire. The village stands on the river Isborne, near the boundary with Worcestershire, 3 miles SSW of Evesham, has a station of the name of Hinton on the Evesham and Ash-church branch of the M.R. It has a post office under Evesham; money order and telegraph office, Evesham. Acreage of parish, 2291; population, 175. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value, £202 with residence. The church is ancient, was restored in 1863, and has a fine tower.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyGloucestershire 
Ecclesiastical parishHinton-on-the-Green St. Peter 
HundredTibaldstone 
Poor Law unionEvesham 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

The Phillimore & co. transcript of the Marriages at Hinton on the Green 1735-1812 is available to browse online.

The register of baptisms and burials dates from the year 1735; marriages, 1755.

The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.


Churches

Church of England

St. Peter (parish church)

The church of St. Peter is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, with traces of Norman work, and consists of nave, south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing 5 bells, four of which are inscribed with a chronogram of the date 1693: the chancel, said to have been destroyed by fire before the Reformation, was rebuilt on the old foundations in 1895, at a cost of about £540, from designs by the late Mr. J. D. Sedding, architect, of London: there are 100 sittings.


Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Hinton on the Green from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.


Maps

Online maps of Hinton on the Green are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Gloucestershire online:


Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of the county of Gloucester, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.

DistrictWychavon
CountyWorcestershire
RegionWest Midlands
CountryEngland
Postal districtWR11
Post TownEvesham

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