Description
Puddlehinton or Pyddle Hinton, a parish in Dorsetshire, lying on the river Piddle, 6 miles N by E of Dorchester station on the G.W.R. It has a post and telegraph office under Dorchester; money order office, Piddletrenthide. Acreage, 2921; population of the civil parish, 388; of the ecclesiastical, 339. There is a pariah council consisting of seven members. The manor belonged once to an alien monastery, and was given by Henry VI. to Eton College. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £280 with residence. Patron, Eton College. The church was built about the beginning of the 15th century, and has been enlarged and well restored.
Parish Church
The church of St. Mary is an ancient building of flint and stone, in the Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, north porch and a southern embattled tower, with pinnacles and containing 5 bells: there are some brasses of the early part of the 15th century, one of which is palimpsest and one is to Thomas Brown, 27 years rector, with an inscription in Latin verse: the church was restored and enlarged in 1868 at a cost of £ 1,200, and has 300 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1539.
