HINTON-IN-THE-HEDGES, a parish in Brackley district, Northampton; on the Buckinghamshire railway, 2 miles W by N of Brackley r. station. Post town, Bra.kley. Acres, 2, 070. Real property, £2, 462. Pop., 178. Houses, 39. The manor belongs to W.Cartwright, Esq. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Stean, in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £500.* Patron, Earl Spencer. The church is early English; consists of nave, chancel, and N aisle, with low square tower; and contains a remarkable ancient altar tomb, and a very ancient and curiously carved font. There are alms houses with about £38 a year, and a subscriptionschool. Gray, the author of "Memoria Technica, " is said to have been a native.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))