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.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Gloucestershire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Hinton-on-the-Green St. Peter | |
Hundred | Tibaldstone | |
Poor Law union | Evesham |
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:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hinton-on-the-Green (St. Peter))
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:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Gloucestershire online:
- Gloucester Citizen
- Gloucester Journal
- Gloucestershire Chronicle
- Gloucestershire Echo
- Cheltenham Chronicle
- Cheltenham Looker-On
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of the county of Gloucester, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.