Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• (at) Terente 871–877 ShaftR(S357(1)) 15

• (in) Tarente 871–877 ib

• (ad) Tarentam (rubric), (ad) Terentam 935 15 ib

• Tarente 1086 DB(f.78b) 1227,1245 FF

• Tarent' 1212 Fees

• Tarent(e) Hyneton(') 1280 Ass 1285 FA 1288 Ass 1428 FA

• Tarent(e) Hynton 1340 NI 1435 FF

• Tarent(e) Henton 1428 FA

• Tarant Hynton juxta Pymperne 1358 Hutch3

• Hinton Tarrant 1795 Boswell

• Hineton' 1280 Ass

• Hynton 1548 Ct

• Hyneton' et (sic) Goundevile 1327 SR

• Hyneton' Goundeuyle 1332 SR

Etymology

One of eight Do pars. named from R. Tarrant, v. RNs.infra .Hinton means 'farm or estate belonging to the religious community', from hīwan (gen.pl. hī (g )na ) and tūn , cf. Piddlehinton par. 1 309, Hinton St M. par. and Hinton Martell par. both infra ; Tarrant Hinton belonged in 1086 DB (VCHDo 382) to Shaftesbury abbey, to which it had been granted by Alfred and Athelstan (S 357, 429). The bounds of the manor are given in S 429. The affix -Goundevile must be from the family which gave name to the adjacent par. of Tarrant Gunville infra .