Chilton Berkshire Family History Guide
Chilton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Berkshire.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1584
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1607
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CHILTON, a parish in Wantage district, Berks; adjacent to Icknield-street and Blewberry plain, 3½ miles N of East Ilsley, and 4 S by E of Steventon r. station. It has a post office under Steventon, Berkshire. Acres, 415. Real property, £2,229. Pop., 315. Houses, 51. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged to the Lattons; and the manor-house, now modernized, bears the name of Latton’s Place. Many Roman antiquities have been found in the neighbourhood, on Hagbourn hill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £400. Patron, G. Morland, Esq. The church is recent. Charities, £11.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Berkshire
- Civil Registration District: Wantage
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire
- Diocese: Pre-1836 – Salisbury, Post-1835 – Oxford
- Rural Deanery: Abingdon
- Poor Law Union: Wantage
- Hundred: Compton
- Province: Canterbury