Chilton, Buckinghamshire
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Chilton is a village and civil parish in the Buckinghamshire district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is in the Aylesbury Vale area in the west of the county, about Template:Convert north of Thame in Oxfordshire. Chilton parish includes the hamlet of Easington (not to be confused with the Oxfordshire village of Easington).
Manor
The toponym "Chilton" is derived from the Old English for "young man's farm".Template:Citation needed The Domesday Book of 1086 records it as Ciltone.<ref name=Page/> It evolved via the forms Chiltone in the 12th century and Schelton in the 18th century before reaching its present form.<ref name=Page/>
Before the Norman conquest of England Alric, son of Goding, a thegn of Edward the Confessor, held the manors of Chilton and Easington.<ref name=Page/> However, the Domesday Book records that by 1086 the Norman baron Walter Giffard held the two manors.<ref name=Page/>
Chilton House was built by John Croke in the early 17th century, then rebuilt by Richard Carter in the 1740s. Its design was based on that of Buckingham House. <ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It is now in the ownership of the Aubrey-Fletcher family and operated as a residential care home.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Parish church
The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary the Virgin was originally a 12th-century Norman building but few details survive from that period.<ref name=Page>Template:Cite book</ref> The chancel and south transept are 13th century, the Decorated Gothic tower forms the north transeptTemplate:Sfn and is mid-14th century.<ref name=Page/> The nave,Template:Sfn chancel arch and chancel roof were renewed in the 15th century.<ref name=Page/> The Perpendicular Gothic south chapel was added in about 1520.<ref name=Page/>