Hinton Waldrist, Berkshire

Description
Hinton Waldrist or Hinton St Wallery, a village and a parish in Berks. The village stands near the river Isis, at the boundary with Oxford, 5 1/2 miles NNW from Wantage Road station on the G.W.R., and 6 1/2 ENE from Great Faringdon, and was once a market-town. The parish contains also the hamlet of Duxford. It has a post office under Faringdon; money order office, Longworth; telegraph office, Buckland. Acreage, 2005 of land and 12 of water; population, 301. The property and the manor belong to the Symonds family. Hinton Manor House is an ancient building, situated so as to command beautiful views of the surrounding country. It occupies the site of an old Norman house, of which some remains still exist. Traces of an ancient camp are near Windmill Hill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £235. The church is cruciform, very ancient, and in very mixed styles of architecture, chiefly Early English, and has a W tower.