Description
Tilty, a parish in Essex, 3 1/2 miles NNW of Dunmow, and 4 1/2 E of Elsenham station on the G.E.R. main line. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Dunmow, under Chelmsford. Acreage, 1069; population of the civil parish, 81; of the ecclesiastical, 212. A Cistercian abbey was. founded here in 1152 by the Earl of Derby, and was given at the dissolution to Lord Audley. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £185. The church was part of the abbey, and is an edifice of rubble in the Decorated and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and a western tower with cupola.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
