Dinton, Wiltshire

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St Mary's Church, Dinton.

Dinton is a village in Wiltshire, England. The village has good local services including two pubs, a shop with post office, a church, and a village hall. The River Nadder flows through the south of the village. There is a bus service to Salisbury that runs about four times a day. A railway goes through Dinton and although there is a station it is now disused. A business park in the south west of the village provides some local employment. Until the early 1990s, another major source of employment was nearby RAF Chilmark, which ran several sites around Dinton.

Dinton is the location of Philipps House, a National Trust property formerly known as Dinton House. It was completed in 1816, by Sir Jeffrey Wyatville, paid for and owned by the Wyndham family. In 1916 it was bought by Bertram Phillips, who renamed the house after him. In 1943 he granted it to the National Trust.

Dinton was the birthplace of Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon.^[1]