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Great Hinton is a small village and civil parish about south of Melksham and north-east of Trowbridge in Wiltshire, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Bleet and Cold Harbour.
Great Hinton became a civil parish in the late 19th century. In 1884, small detached areas of the parish were transferred to Hilperton parish.
There is no church in the parish. Today, Great Hinton is within the area of the benefice of North Bradley, Southwick, Heywood and Steeple Ashton. Both Primitive Methodists and Wesleyan Methodists built small chapels in the mid-19th century; neither of them is still in use.
In 2012, the village was judged to be "best kept small village" in Wiltshire.
The Manor House is from the early 19th century and is also a Grade II listed building. It is a detached house constructed of dressed limestone, with a hipped roof of Welsh slate and brick chimney stacks. It is a two-storey building with three windows at the front on the upper floor and two on the ground floor with a central door. Other listed buildings in the village include Church Farmhouse, New Barn Farmhouse and Fore Street Farmhouse, which all date from the 17th century, and Old Mill Cottage from much the same date. On Back Street, a pair of brick and stone houses which bear a 1791 date are now a single dwelling called Thornhill Cottage.
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