Broad Hinton, Wiltshire

Description
Broad-Hinton, a parish in Wilts, 4 1/2 miles SE of Wootton-Basset station on the G.W.R., and 6 SSW of Swindon, under which it has a post and money order office; telegraph office, Wroughton. Acreage, 3114; population, 372. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury ; net value, £127. Patron, St Nicholas Hospital, Salisbury. The church is old but good, and has a square embattled tower and several curious and interesting monuments to the Wroughton and Glanville families. It was thoroughly restored in 1880. The vicarage of Broad-Town is a separate benefice. Sir John Glanville, the eminent lawyer and Speaker of the Short Parliament, was a resident, and is buried in the church. There is a reading-room and small library.