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Hinton Blewett is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, 5 mile (8 km) north of Wells and 15 mile (24 km) south of Bristol on the northern slope of the Mendip Hills, within the designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and in the Chew Valley near the source of the River Chew. The parish has a population of 308. Using a multiplier of five for each of the individuals recorded by Domesday, the total population at that time is likely to have been in the region of 90 people. The form of their settlement before 1066, is likely to have been a mixture of dispersed, individual farmsteads, and perhaps the beginnings of a more nucleated occupation site. It would certainly have looked nothing like the settlement morphology that we see in later maps. The Blewett part of the name is a manorial affix, deriving from the Bluet family. It is recorded before the middle of the thirteenth century. The best explanation for the toponym Hinton is that it derives from Old English hēan (a dative form of the word hēah) and tūn. The second element of this name is the single commonest place name forming word and it has an extremely wide variety of meanings, but it stems from an ancient root word with connotations of enclosure. In most cases, settlement, estate, farmstead are probably the most notable meanings. The first element has a meaning of 'high, elevated', and topographically, this perfectly describes the situation of the present settlement. Hinton lies towards the western end of a ridge of high ground the highest point of which attains a value of 156m aOD. The parish was part of the hundred of Chewton. The name of the village is sometimes spelled as Hinton Blewitt. There is a village green outside the pub and church, sometimes known as the "Barbary". and before 1974 was part of the Clutton Rural District of Somerset. The parish is represented in the House of Commons as part of North East Somerset, which elects one Member of Parliament. It was also part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament prior to Britain leaving the European Union in January 2020, which elected six MEPs.

According to the 2001 Census, the Mendip Ward (which includes East and West Harptree), had 1,465 residents, living in 548 households, with an average age of 39.0 years. Of these 79% of residents describing their health as 'good', 22% of 16 to 74 year olds had no qualifications; and the area had an unemployment rate of 1.5% of all economically active people aged 16–74. In the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004, it was ranked at 25,387 out of 32,482 wards in England, where 1 was the most deprived LSOA and 32,482 the least deprived.

The Church of St Margaret is largely built of Blue Lias with Doulting Stone arcade, and probably dates from the 13th century although parts are as late as the 16th or 17th century. However, as important as the church itself, is its site. This is certainly not the first church on this site, as attested by the Norman font, of late 11th or 12th century date; and because very many rural churches were merely rebuilt by the Normans, very often with stone replacing an original timber structure, it is possible to be very confident that there would have been an Anglo Saxon church on this site by the year 1000 at the latest. The five bells were cast in 1708 by the Bilbies of Chew Stoke. It includes the coat of arms of Simon Seward (Rector 1514–59) over the doorway. The church is a Grade I listed building