Description
Hinxworth, a village and a parish in Herts. The village stands near the boundary with Beds and Cambridgeshire, 4 1/2 miles N from Baldock station on the G.N.R. The parish comprises 1463 acres; population, 289. It has a post office under Baldock; money order and telegraph office, Ashwell. Roman antiquities have been found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St Albans; net yearly value, a£200 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of St Albans. The church is an ancient building of flint, in various styles, consisting of nave, chancel, and porch, with low tower and spire, and is good. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
