Broad Hinton and Winterbourne Bassett is a parish council area comprising the adjacent civil parishes of Broad Hinton

Broad Hinton

Broad Hinton is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. The parish includes the hamlet of The Weir. The village is about southwest of Swindon....

 and Winterbourne Bassett

Winterbourne Bassett

Winterbourne Bassett is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire.-Local government:Although a civil parish Winterbourne Bassett does not have a parish council in its own right, it shares one with Broad Hinton - see Broad Hinton and Winterbourne Bassett...

, in the English

England

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 county of Wiltshire

Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...

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Local government

The two parishes form a single civil parish, electing one parish council, as they would otherwise be too small. They also fall within the area of the Wiltshire Council

Wiltshire Council

Wiltshire Council is the unitary authority for most of the county of Wiltshire, in the West of England, the successor authority to Wiltshire County Council and to four districts—Kennet, North Wiltshire, Salisbury, and West Wiltshire—all of which had been created in 1973 and were...

 unitary authority

Unitary authority

A unitary authority is a type of local authority that has a single tier and is responsible for all local government functions within its area or performs additional functions which elsewhere in the relevant country are usually performed by national government or a higher level of sub-national...

, which is responsible for almost all significant local government functions.

In the census of 2002, the population of the parishes was 790.

Sources

• Kennet District Council Website page on Broad Hinton and Winterbourne Bassett Parish, retrieved 15:40 Oct 5, 2004 (UTC).
• Office of National Statistics (ONS) - List of English parishes, retrieved 14:00 Oct 3, 2004 (UTC).
• Map 'Explorer 157', published by the Ordnance Survey
  Ordnance Survey
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  , ISBN 0-319-21782-5, revised 1997.