Tarrant Hinton

	Tarrant Hinton is most famous nowadays for the Great Dorset Steam Fair; about 5 miles north of Blanford on the main road to Salisbury, Tarrant Hinton no longer has a village pub, shop or Post Office. The church dedicated to St Mary is in the Old English style with an Easter Sepulchre dating to the reign of Henry VII and a font and piscina of a Norman date. The church was restored in 1891and the registers date from 1545. Left: St Mary's, Tarrant Hinton (Courtesy Jan Hibberd ©2010,2011)
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Census	1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881
Directories	Kelly's Directories 1855, 1867, 1875, 1880, 1895, 1935 Post Office Directory 1855, 1859, 1889, 1911, 1915
Church Data	Baptisms 1545 -1699 & 1700-1812 Marriages & Banns 1545-1812 Burials 1545-1812
Other Records	Protestation Returns 1641
Photographs	For Photographs of Tarrant Crawford, Hinton and Keynston.
Maps	The 1891 Ordnance Survey maps of the parish can be seen at the old-maps site, just enter 'Tarrant Hinton' under place search.
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