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Hinton (place Name)
Hinton is a place name of Old English origin, and is a common English village name, particularly in Southern England. Village names often include a suffix, for example Hinton on the Green and Hinton-in-the-Hedges. The place-name is closely related to other place-names that may derive from Old English ''hēah'' (or ''hēa'', ''hēan''), meaning "high" or "tall", such as Highham, Heaton, and Hampton. Etymology The place name ''Hinton'' is of Old English origin, and usually derives from either: # Old English ''hiwan'' (or ''higna'', ''hina''), meaning "members of a family, household or religious house",. "Such a manor was set aside for the support of the domestic servants of a religious or other household" or "farm of the monks or of the nuns". # Old English ''hēah'' (or ''hēan''), meaning "high, tall" or "exalted, important". The suffix is from Old English ''tūn'', meaning "an enclosed piece of ground" or "a village or town". Examples List of examples Sortable list o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinton Martell Fountain And Parish Church - Geograph
__NOTOC__ Hinton may refer to: Places Australia *Hinton, New South Wales Canada *Hinton, Alberta **Hinton/Entrance Airport **Hinton/Jasper-Hinton Airport **Hinton CN railway station England *Hinton, Dorset, a civil parish **Hinton Martell, Dorset **Hinton Parva, Dorset *Hinton, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire *Hinton, Stroud, Gloucestershire, a village near Berkeley *Hinton, Hampshire *Hinton, Herefordshire *Hinton, Northamptonshire *Hinton, Shropshire *Hinton, Somerset *Hinton, Suffolk *Hinton Admiral, Hampshire **Hinton Admiral railway station *Hinton Ampner, Hampshire *Hinton Blewett, Somerset *Hinton Charterhouse, Somerset *Hinton Daubney, Hampshire *Hinton Parva, Wiltshire, also known as Little Hinton *Hinton St George, Somerset *Hinton St Mary, Dorset *Hinton Waldrist, Oxfordshire *Hinton-in-the-Hedges, Northamptonshire *Hinton on the Green, Worcestershire *Broad Hinton, Wiltshire *Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire *Great Hinton, Wiltshire *Tarrant Hinton, Dorset United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerset
Somerset ( , ), Archaism, archaically Somersetshire ( , , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel, Gloucestershire, and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. The largest settlement is the city of Bath, Somerset, Bath, and the county town is Taunton. Somerset is a predominantly rural county, especially to the south and west, with an area of and a population of 965,424. After Bath (101,557), the largest settlements are Weston-super-Mare (82,418), Taunton (60,479), and Yeovil (49,698). Wells, Somerset, Wells (12,000) is a city, the second-smallest by population in England. For Local government in England, local government purposes the county comprises three Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority areas: Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset, and Somerset Council, Somerset. Bath and North East Somerset Council is a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgcote
Edgcote is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Chipping Warden and Edgcote, in the West Northamptonshire district, in the ceremonial county of Northamptonshire, England. It is situated on the River Cherwell. The parish was bounded by the river to the north and by one of its tributaries to the east. The village is about north-east of Banbury in neighbouring Oxfordshire, and the south-western boundary of the parish formed part of the county boundary. In 2001 the parish had a population of 57. History The village's name possibly means, "cottage(s) of the Hwicce", a tribal name. On 1 October 2008 the parish was abolished and merged with Chipping Warden to form "Chipping Warden & Edgcote". Edgcote House Edgcote House (or Hall) is an 18th-century country house of two storeys plus a basement and a nine bay frontage. The manor house is built of local ironstone with dressings of fine grey stone. Features include a carved mahogany staircase, and a drawing room ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edge Hill, Warwickshire
Edge Hill is an escarpment and Edgehill a hamlet in the civil parish of Ratley and Upton, Stratford-on-Avon District, southern Warwickshire, England. At Ratley, the escarpment rises to above sea level and above nearby Radway, within 300 metres of the Warwickshire border with Oxfordshire. Edge Hill gave its name to the first battle of the English Civil War, in which it was a prominent feature. The hamlet has a public house, an eccentric building of local Hornton Stone called the Castle Inn that was built in the 1740s to the designs of Sanderson Miller (1716–80). It is controlled by the Hook Norton Brewery. Battle The narrow wood on the scarp of Edge Hill, in the south-east overlooks the lower slope and the plain on which the battle was fought. The battle of Edge Hill was fought on Sunday 23 October 1642 and was the first major battle in the English Civil War between the Royalist forces of King Charles I and the Parliamentarian army commanded by the Earl of Essex. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Watts
Victor Watts, (18 April 1938 – 21 December 2002) was a British toponymist, medievalist, translator, and academic, specialising in English place-names. He served as Master of Grey College, Durham from 1989 until his sudden death in 2002. He had been a lecturer in English at Durham University from 1962, honorary director of the English Place-Name Survey from 1993, and editor of the ''Journal of the English Place-Name Society'' from 1996. Early life and education Watts was born on 18 April 1938. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School, then an all-boys private school in Bristol. He studied at Merton College, Oxford, and at the University of London. Academic career In 1962, Watts jointed Durham University as a lecturer in English language. He was promoted to senior lecturer in 1974. His first association with Grey College, Durham was as a pastoral tutor. Then, from 1984 to 1989, he served as the college's senior tutor and vice-master. In 1989, he was appointed Master of Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etymology
Etymology ( ) is the study of the origin and evolution of words—including their constituent units of sound and meaning—across time. In the 21st century a subfield within linguistics, etymology has become a more rigorously scientific study. Most directly tied to historical linguistics, philology, and semiotics, it additionally draws upon comparative semantics, morphology, pragmatics, and phonetics in order to attempt a comprehensive and chronological catalogue of all meanings and changes that a word (and its related parts) carries throughout its history. The origin of any particular word is also known as its ''etymology''. For languages with a long written history, etymologists make use of texts, particularly texts about the language itself, to gather knowledge about how words were used during earlier periods, how they developed in meaning and form, or when and how they entered the language. Etymologists also apply the methods of comparative linguistics to reconstruct in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toponym
Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of ''wikt:toponym, toponyms'' (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage, and types. ''Toponym'' is the general term for a proper name of any geographical feature, and full scope of the term also includes proper names of all cosmographical features. In a more specific sense, the term ''toponymy'' refers to an inventory of toponyms, while the discipline researching such names is referred to as ''toponymics'' or ''toponomastics''. Toponymy is a branch of onomastics, the study of proper names of all kinds. A person who studies toponymy is called ''toponymist''. Etymology The term ''toponymy'' comes from / , 'place', and / , 'name'. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' records ''toponymy'' (meaning "place name") first appearing in English in 1876 in the context of geographical studies. Since then, ''toponym'' has come to replace the term ''place-name'' in profe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wimborne Minster (church)
Wimborne Minster is the parish church of Wimborne Minster, Wimborne, Dorset, England. The minster has existed for over 1300 years and is recognised for its unusual chained library (one of only a few surviving chained libraries in the world). The minster is a former monastery and Benedictine nunnery, and Æthelred of Wessex, King Æthelred of Wessex is buried there. History Wimborne Abbey The minster is dedicated to Cuthburh, Saint Cuthburga (sister to Ine of Wessex, Ine, King of Wessex and wife of Aldfrith of Northumbria, Aldfrith, King of Northumbria) who founded a Benedictine abbey of nuns at the present day minster 705. Saint Walpurga was educated in the monastery, where she spent 26 years before travelling to Germany, following the missionary call of her mother's brother Saint Boniface. Leoba was also educated in this place. A monastery for men was also built around this time, adjacent to the abbey. Over the next hundred years the abbey and monastery grew in size and importa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert De Magminot
Gilbert Maminot, or Magminot, (d. August, 1101), was a Norman bishop in the eleventh century. He was born of 'a substantial Norman family of the middle rank', in Courbépine, his father being the knight Robert of Courbépine. He was known to his contemporaries as a capable administrator, and, according to Marjorie Chibnall, he was more than a match for Robert Curthose, who had succeeded his father, William the Conqueror, to the title of Duke of Normandy. Prior to his ascension to the see of Lisieux, Maminot had been the personal physician and chaplain to William the Conqueror. Bishop of Lisieux Upon the death of Hugh of Eu in 1077, Gilbert was elected as his successor and was anointed by Michael of Avranches, Michael, the bishop of Avranches in the presence of John of Avranches, John, the Archbishop of Rouen. Maminot was known to be 'a man of great learning and some medical skill, just and firm…but merciful’ and a capable administrator, although he was more notorious, acco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinton Martell
Hinton Martell (also known as Hinton Martel) is a village and former civil parish, now in the civil parish of Hinton, in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies within the Dorset unitary authority area of the county, three miles north of the town of Wimborne Minster. In the 2001 Census the parish had a population of 368. The civil parish was abolished on 1 April 2015 and merged with Hinton Parva to form Hinton. History Hinton Martell was once known as Hinetone, the village of the monks. It was owned at this time by Eudo Martel, a Frenchman whose surname meant hammer. The village has a church, thatched cottages, and a rather unusual fountain. The current fountain is a replacement for an original which was built low for sheep to drink from. In 1905 in his ''Highways and Byways in Dorset'', Sir Frederick Treves called the original "a fountain as may be found in a suburban tea garden or in front of a gaudy Italian villa." He continues, "The fountain, of painted metal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinton St George
Hinton St George is a village and parish in Somerset, England, situated outside Crewkerne, south west of Yeovil. The village has a population of 442. It has a wide main street lined with hamstone cottages, some thatched. The village has a thriving shop. The village does not lie on a major road, and has a few holiday cottages and second homes. History The parish was part of the hundred of Crewkerne. Much of the development of the village occurred under the lords Poulett extending their large house and estate (Hinton House). By the 1560s the three open arable fields had been enclosed and two large estates of 74 and created, based on the now disappeared hamlet of Craft. The park contained deer and orchards, with cherry trees The village cross is an high cross with a tapering octagonal shaft on stepped octagonal base. It is a scheduled monument and Grade II* listed building. Governance The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaftesbury Abbey
Shaftesbury Abbey was an abbey that housed nuns in Shaftesbury, Dorset. It was founded in about 888, and Dissolution of the monasteries, dissolved in 1539 during the English Reformation by the order of Thomas Cromwell, minister to King Henry VIII. At the time it was the second-wealthiest nunnery in England, behind only Syon Abbey. History Alfred the Great founded the convent in about 888 and installed his daughter Æthelgifu, abbess of Shaftesbury, Æthelgifu as the first abbess. Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury, Ælfgifu, the wife of Alfred's grandson, King Edmund I, was buried at Shaftesbury and soon venerated as a saint, and she came to be regarded by the house as its true founder. The bones of St Edward the Martyr were translated from Wareham, Dorset, Wareham and received at the abbey with great ceremony. The Translation (relics), translation of the relics was overseen by Dunstan, St Dunstan and Ælfhere, Ealdorman of Mercia. This occurred in a great procession beginning on 13 Feb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
