Tarrant Hinton
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Tarrant Hinton is a village in North Dorset
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, situated in the Tarrant Valley five miles north-east of Blandford Forum. The village has a population
Population
A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...

 of 195 .

The village no longer has a pub, shop or post office, but it has a medieval parish church and a village hall which are used by an active community.
Tarrant Hinton is best known as the location of the Great Dorset Steam Fair
Great Dorset Steam Fair
The Great Dorset Steam Fair is an annual show featuring steam-powered vehicles and machinery. It now covers and runs for five days from the Wednesday after the UK August bank holiday...

, which is annually visited by some 200,000 people.

Tarrant Hinton now has a presence on the Web with a local website which is maintained by Greg Thurtle, a local photographer.

The closest pub, in Tarrant Monkton, is called the Langton Arms.
There are 2 pubs in the nearby village of Pimperne - together with a village shop.

There is a local newsletter published regularly called the Tarrant Hinton Times.

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