Description
Chilton, a village and a parish in Berks, adjacent to Icknield Street and Blewberry Plain, 3 1/2 miles N of East Ilsley, and 2 E from Upton station on the G.W.R., with a post and telegraph office under Steventon (R.S.O.); money order office, East Ilsley. Acreage, 1448; population, 268. 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; net yearly value, £259 with residence. The church is a small building of stone in the Early English and later styles. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
