DINTON, a parish in the hundred of WARMINSTER,
though locally in the hundred of Dunworth, county of
WILTS, 5 miles (W.) from Wilton, containing 517 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at
£ 6, and .in the patronage of the President and Fellows
of Magdalene College, Oxford. The church is dedicatto
St. Mary. At Great Teffont, in this parish, is a
chapel of ease. There is a place of worship for dissenters,
who have assumed no particular denomination.
The celebrated lawyer, statesman, and historian, Edward
Hyde, Earl of Clarendpn, was born here in 1608.