HINTON (CHARTERHOUSE), a parish in the hundred of WELLOW, county of SOMERSET, 5 miles (S. S. E.) from Bath, containing 640 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, endowed with £1800 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Rev. James Commeline. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, has two hundred free sittings, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £200 towards defraying the expense. Ela, Countess of Salisbury, relict of William Longespee, founded a Carthusian monastery, here in 1227, dedicating it to the Blessed Virgin, St. John the Baptist, and All Saints, to which she caused the monks of Hethorp, in Gloucestershire, to be removed in 1232; its revenue, in the 26th of Henry VIII., was estimated at £262. 12. The manor-house was built from the ruins of the priory; the other remains are, the chapel, charnelhouse, and granary, and are surrounded by a grove of aged oaks. This was anciently a Roman station, considerable vestiges of which are still discernible, the ground being covered with squares, circles, and other earthworks; and in turning up the soil an abundance of pottery was found, from the finest Samian to the coarsest kind, together with iron, glass, scoria? of iron, numerous small coins of the lower empire, and the remains of a small Roman amphitheatre; from this place the course of a Roman road may also be traced.