In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Chilton like this:
CHILTON, a parish in the district of Thame and county of Buckingham; on an affluent of the river Thame, 4 miles N by W of Thame r. station. It includes the hamlet of Easington; and has a post office under Thame. Acres, 2, 080. Real property, £3, 565. Pop., 364. Houses, 70. The property is divided among a few. ...
The manor belonged to the Crokes; and passed to the Carters and the Aubreys. Chilton House has an embattled porch. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £67. Patron, S. Ricketts, Esq. The church is good, and contains monuments of the Crokes, and a stone pulpit. An alms-house at Studley, in Oxford, is largely for the behoof of Chilton; and there are other charities, £31. Sir George Croke, the patriotic judge of the time of Charles I., was a native.
Chilton through time
Chilton is now part of Aylesbury Vale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Aylesbury Vale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Chilton itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Chilton, in Aylesbury Vale and Buckinghamshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4552
Date accessed: 24th April 2024
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