HINTON (TARRANT), a parish in the hundred of PIMPERNE, Blandford (North) division of the county of DORSET, 4 miles (N. E.) from Blandford-Forum, containing 278 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £12. 17. 1. The Rev. W. Pigott was patron in 1821.