Hinton (place name)

Village names often include a suffix, for example Hinton on the Green and Hinton-in-the-Hedges.

The place name Hinton is of Old English origin, and usually derives from either: The suffix is from Old English tūn, meaning "an enclosed piece of ground" or "a village or town".

Sortable list of examples: The name was previously recorded as Hynton in the edge (1549).

The etymologist Victor Watts proposed that the name derives from Old English hina,[2] which is normally used in the context of a monastery or other community.

The name element edge refers to a hill-side or escarpment (also found in nearby Edge Hill and Edgcote) – the village is on the rim of a plateau used by the Hinton-in-the-Hedges Airfield.