HINTON, or HINTON-STANDBRIDGE (PARVA), a parish in the hundred of BADBURY, Shaston (East) division of the county of DORSET, 3 miles (N. by W.) from Wimborne -Minster, containing 25 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £4. 12. 1., and in the patronage of Sir Richard Carr Glyn, Bart. The church, dedicated to St. Kenelm, was formerly a chapel to Wimborne-Minster, to which the inhabitants still pay 10s. per annum, and where they bury, there being no church-yard here. The river Allen forms the western boundary of the parish.