Tarrant Hinton
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Tarrant Hinton is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It is situated in the Tarrant Valley, approximately five miles (eight kilometres) northeast of Blandford Forum. In 2013 the estimated population of the civil parish was 160.[1]
History
The village's name appears in medieval sources. In 935, King Æthelstan granted land at Tarrant Hinton to the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey under condition that they would pray hard for the king.[2]
Community
The village no longer has a public house, shop or post office, but it has a medieval parish church and a newly rebuilt village hall. In 2001 the ecclesiastical parish of Tarrant Hinton was grouped with nine other surrounding parishes to form the Chase Benefice in the Anglican Diocese of Salisbury. There is a local church benefice newsletter published regularly called the Tarrant Times.
Tarrant Hinton is well known as the location of the Great Dorset Steam Fair, which is annually visited by some 200,000 people.
Governance
Tarrant Hinton parish falls under the Dorset Council ward of Hill Forts and Upper Tarrants, and the parliamentary constituency of North Dorset. The current MP (since 2015) is Simon Hoare of the Conservative Party.
References
- ^ a b "Parish Population Data". Dorset County Council. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
- ^ Studies in the Early History of Shaftesbury Abbey. Dorset County Council, 1999
External links
Media related to Tarrant Hinton at Wikimedia Commons
- Tarrant Hinton Village website
- Great Dorset Steam Fair official site
- BBC Steam Fair site (2005)
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