HINTON-WALDRIST, a parish in the hundred of
GANFIELD, county of BERKS, 6 miles (N. E. by E.)
from Great Farringdon, containing 315 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Berks,
and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at
£23. 7. 6. The Rev. J. Loder was patron in 1802. The
church is dedicated to St. Margaret. Henry III,, in
1217, granted a charter to Henry de St. Valery, for a
market to be held here on Wednesday, but it has long
been disused. In the neighbourhood are traces of an
ancient intrenchment, now an orchard, near which is
an eminence called Windmill hill, supposed to have
been a signal station.