HINTON (ST-MARY), a parish in the hundred of
STURMINSTER-NEWTON-CASTLE, Sturminster division of
the county of DORSET, 8 miles (S. W. by W.) from
Shaftesbury, containing 297 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy with the vicarage of Iwerne-
Minster, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of
Bristol. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. Mary
Freke, in 1684, gave £6 per annum for teaching poor
children.