Hinton Waldrist

In 1086 the Domesday Book recorded the village as Hentone, Old English for "high farmstead".{{sfn|Mills|Room|2003|p=s.v. Hinton}} In the 12th century the manor passed to the St. Valery family, from whom the village took the second part of its name. In 1332 the manor was acquired by William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton, whose granddaughter Mary de Bohun became the first wife of Henry IV. The manor was subsequently held by John Ramsay, 1st Earl of Holderness, Sir Henry Marten and the Loder family.{{sfn|Page|Ditchfield|1924|pp=463–466}}

The oldest part of Hinton Manor House is a late 16th-century Elizabethan building. About 1700 John Loder had it refronted and a new block added to the rear. Additions to the house, including an orangery and a Gothic revival-style wing, were built about 1830. An extra storey was added to one wing about 1860. The house is a Grade II* listed building.{{NHLE |num=1182212 |desc=Hinton Manor |grade=II* |access-date=18 April 2016}}

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The earthworks of a former 11th century motte-and-bailey castle are southwest of the moated manor house.

The Church of England parish church of St Margaret is mid-13th-century. It is cruciform, completed in the late 13th century by the addition of the south transept.{{sfn|Pevsner|1966|p=155}} Several of the windows and their stained glass are 19th-century. Inside the church are several monuments to members of the Loder family, and one commemorating Airey Neave, who lived in the village is buried in the churchyard. The church is a Grade II* listed building.{{NHLE |num=1048641 |desc=Church of St Margaret |grade=II* |access-date=17 December 2011}}

The west tower is Decorated Gothic{{sfn|Pevsner|1966|p=155}} and has a ring of six bells. Abraham I Rudhall of Gloucester cast the second, third and fourth bells in 1709. William Taylor of Loughborough cast the fifth bell in 1843, presumably at the foundry he had at that time in Oxford. Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the tenor bell in 1868. John Taylor & Co of Loughborough cast the treble bell in 1928.{{cite web |url= http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=Hinton+Waldrist&Submit=+Go+&DoveID=HINTON+WAL |title=Hinton Waldrist S Margaret |last=Davies |first=Peter |date=3 February 2014 |work=Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers |publisher=Central Council for Church Bell Ringers |access-date=18 April 2016}}

St Margaret's parish is part of the Benefice of Cherbury with Gainfield.{{cite web |url=http://www.achurchnearyou.com/benefice.php?B=27/106CK |title=Benefice of Cherbury with Gainfield |author=Archbishops' Council |author-link=Archbishops' Council |publisher=Church of England |access-date=18 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090916004723/http://www.achurchnearyou.com/benefice.php?B=27%2F106CK |archive-date=16 September 2009 |url-status=dead }}

The oldest part of the Old Rectory is the rear wing, which is 14th-century. It has three crucks and was built as a hall house. The central part of the house was added in the 17th century, and the front was added about 1840. It is a Grade II* listed building.{{NHLE |num=1368397 |desc=The Old Rectory and Old Rectory Cottage |grade=II* |access-date=18 April 2016}} It is no longer a clergy residence.

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The parish school was built in 1850. By 1924 it was an elementary school.{{sfn|Page|Ditchfield|1924|pp=463–466}} It has since been closed and the building converted into a private house.

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There is a farm shop at Laggots Farm on the High Street.{{cite web |url= https://www.facebook.com/people/W-G-Gibbens-Sons/100062317548059/ |title=WG Gibbens & Sons |publisher=Facebook}}

Oxfordshire County Council subsidised bus route 63 between Oxford and Southmoor serves Hinton Waldrist on weekdays. From Monday to Friday there are five departures a day from Hinton Waldrist to Oxford, and two buses a day from Oxford to Hinton Waldrist. There is no service on Saturday, Sunday, or Bank Holidays. The current contractor operating the route is Thames Travel.{{cite web |url= https://www.oxfordbus.co.uk/services/THTR/63?date=2023-03-02&direction=inbound |title=Thames Travel 63, Thames Travel 63S |publisher=Oxford Bus Company |access-date=2 March 2023}}

• Airey Neave MP (1916–79), buried in the churchyard
• Diana Neave, Baroness Airey of Abingdon (1919–92), buried in the churchyard

Hinton Waldrist is the subject of 62 stereoscopic images produced by the Victorian photographer T.R. Williams in 1856.{{sfn|May|Vidal|2009}} The series of photographs is the subject of a book entitled A Village Lost and Found, co-authored by Queen guitarist Brian May.{{cite news |first=Nicholas |last=Roe |title=Brian May rediscovers 'lost' village |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=15 October 2009 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/outdoors/6336330/Brian-May-rediscovers-lost-village.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091020023048/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/outdoors/6336330/Brian-May-rediscovers-lost-village.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 October 2009 |access-date=1 November 2009}}

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• {{cite book |last1=May |first1=Brian |author-link=Brian May |last2=Vidal |first2=E |year=2009 |title=A Village Lost and Found: Scenes in Our Village by T. R. Williams. An Annotated Tour of the Celebrated 1850s Stereo Card Series |publisher=Frances Lincoln}}
• {{cite book |last1=Mills |first1=AD |last2=Room |first2=Adrian |author2-link=Adrian Room |year=2003 |title=A Dictionary of British Place-Names |place=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-852758-6}}
• {{cite book |editor1-last=Page |editor1-first=William |editor1-link=William Page (historian) |editor2-last=Ditchfield |editor2-first=PH |editor2-link=Peter Ditchfield |others=assisted by John Hautenville Cope |year=1924 |title=A History of the County of Berkshire |volume=IV |series=Victoria County History |place=London |publisher=The St Katherine Press |pages=463–466 |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62749}}
• {{cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |author-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |year=1966 |title=Berkshire |series=The Buildings of England |place=Harmondsworth |publisher=Penguin Books |page=155}}

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• [http://www.hintonwaldrist.net/ Hinton Waldrist on the Web]

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