HINXWORTH, a parish in the hundred of ODSEY,
county of HERTFORD, 5 miles (N.) from Baldock, containing
247 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the
archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln,
rated in the king's books at £16, and in the patronage
of the Rev. John Lafont. The church, dedicated
to St. Nicholas, has a quadrangular tower, embattled and
surmounted by a low spire. In the neighbourhood,
urns enclosing ashes and burnt bones were discovered
in 1724, also several human skeletons, with a glass tribulus,
lachrymatories of glass, pateras of red earth, &c.