Description
Chilton, a village and a parish in Buckinghamshire, 5 miles N by W of Thame station on the G.W.R., including the hamlet of Easington, and with a post office under Thame ; money order office, Long Crendon ; telegraph office, Brill. Acreage, 2069; population, 287. Chilton House has an embattled porch. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net yearly value, £120. The church is an ancient building of stone in mixed styles, and contains monuments of the Crokes and an oak pulpit. There is also a small Congregational chapel. Sir George Croke, the patriotic judge of the time of Charles I., was a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
