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Hinton Martell

Hinton Martell
Hinton Martell Fountain and Parish Church - geograph.org.uk - 866591.jpg
Fountain and Parish Church
Hinton Martell is located in Dorset
Hinton Martell
Hinton Martell
Hinton Martell shown within Dorset
Population 368 
OS grid reference SU013061
Civil parish
  • Hinton Martell
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town WIMBORNE
Postcode district BH21
Dialling code 01258
Police Dorset
Fire Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Dorset
50°51′14″N 1°58′59″W / 50.854°N 1.983°W / 50.854; -1.983Coordinates: 50°51′14″N 1°58′59″W / 50.854°N 1.983°W / 50.854; -1.983

Hinton Martell (also known as Hinton Martel) is a village in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies within the East Dorset administrative district of the county, three miles north of the town of Wimborne Minster. In the 2001 Census the village had a population of 368.

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 and thatched cottages, and also 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, tawdry and flimsy, represents a boy standing in one dish while he holds another on his head. No unhappy detail is spared: the ambitious pedestal, the three impossible dolphins, the paltry squirt of water, are all here. How this cafe chantant ornament has found its way into a modest and secluded hamlet there is no evidence to show". The fountain was irreparably damaged in the severe winter of 1963. It was replaced, and was revealed in 1965 by Miss Anne Sidney of Poole, the 'Miss World' winner of that year.


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