Hinton, Broad (St. Peter)

HINTON, BROAD (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Marlborough, hundred of Selkley, Marlborough and Ramsbury, and N. divisions of Wilts, 8 miles (N. W.) from Marlborough; containing 670 inhabitants. The manor belonged in the reign of Elizabeth to Sir John Glanville, speaker of the house of commons, who resided for many years in the ancient manor-house, and whose remains are interred in the chancel of the church, with those of several members of his family. The parish is situated on the road from Devizes to Oxford, and comprises by admeasurement 4388 acres. The village, which is neatly built, is on the road from Wootton-Bassett to Marlborough, and on the new road from Salisbury to Kennet. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £14. 18. 11½.; net income, £302; patron and impropriator, the Master of St. Nicholas' Hospital, Salisbury: the glebe comprises 21 acres. The church, a venerable edifice, has been thoroughly repaired and beautified, at the expense of the parishioners, aided by grants from the Diocesan and Incorporated Societies; it contains a monument to Sir John Glanville, who was killed at Bridgwater, and two monuments to the Wroughton family, on one of which is the effigy of an armed knight, with helmet and gauntlets. The communion-plate was presented by the family of Glanville. At Broad-Town is a church dedicated to Christ, having a consolidated chapelry attached. A school was endowed with £20 per annum, and a house and garden for the master, by Thomas Bennet, of Salthrop, who also bequeathed £13. 8. per annum for apprenticing children. There are evident traces of a camp; and a deed conveying some lands in the parish 200 years since, notices a chapel here.