Dyrham and Hinton, Gloucestershire

Description
Dirham and Hinton or Dyrham, a parish in Gloucestershire, on an affluent of the river Avon, among the Cotswolds, 3 1/2 miles NW of Marshfield, 6 S by E of Chipping-Sodbury, and 5 1/4 E of Mangotsfield station on the M.R. It has a post office, of the name of Dyrham, under Chippenham ; money order and telegraph office, Marshfield. Acreage, 3020; population, 365. Dirham Park is the seat of the lord of the manor, erected in 1698, and contains a fine collection of paintings. A camp on Hinton Hill is thought by some to have been a Roman outpost of Bath, by others to have been formed in connection with a battle between the Britons and the Saxons in 577. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; gross value £414 with residence. The church belongs to the Decorated and Perpendicular periods, and contains some ancient monuments and brasses.