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A place-name found in various counties, usually ‘farm of the young (noble)men’, from OE cild + tūn; for example: Chilton Buckinghamshire Ciltone (1086) (DB). Chilton Durham. Ciltona (1091). Chilton Oxfordshire Cylda tun (c.895), Cilletone (1086) (DB). Chilton Cantelo Somerset. Childeton (1201), Chiltone Cauntilo (1361). Manorial addition from the Cantelu family, here in the 13th cent. Chilton Foliat Wiltshire Cilletone (1086) (DB), Chilton Foliot (1221). Manorial addition from the Foliot family, here in the 13th cent. Chilton Street Suffolk. Chilton (1254). Affix street probably has the sense ‘straggling village’. Chilton Trinity Somerset. Cildetone (1086) (DB), Chilton Sancte Trinitatis (1431). Affix from the dedication of the church.
However the following Chilton has a different origin: Chilton Polden Somerset. Ceptone (1086) (DB), Chauton (1303). Possibly ‘farmstead on chalk or limestone’, from OE cealc + tūn, with affix from the nearby Polden Hills (Poeldune (725), from OE dūn ‘hill’ added to a Celtic name Bouelt (705) which probably means ‘cow pasture’).
However the following Chilton has a different origin: Chilton Polden Somerset. Ceptone (1086) (DB), Chauton (1303). Possibly ‘farmstead on chalk or limestone’, from OE cealc + tūn, with affix from the nearby Polden Hills (Poeldune (725), from OE dūn ‘hill’ added to a Celtic name Bouelt (705) which probably means ‘cow pasture’).
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Chilton (surname)
For persons with the given name Chilton, see Chilton (disambiguation).
Chilton is an English surname. Notable persons with the surname Chilton include:
- Allenby Chilton (1918-1996), English football player
- Alex Chilton (1950-2010), American songwriter, guitarist, singer and producer
- Bart Chilton (b. 1960), commissioner on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Barry Chilton, former leader of the British Columbia Conservative Party
- Charles Chilton (b. 1917), BBC radio presenter, a writer and a producer
- Charles Chilton (zoologist) (1860–1929), New Zealand
- Chris Chilton (b. 1943), British footballer
- David Chilton (1951–1997), pastor and Christian Reconstructionist
- David Barr Chilton, Canadian financial author
- Horace Chilton (1853-1932), printer, lawyer, and Democratic US Senator from Texas
- James Chilton, d. 1620 on the Mayflower
- John Chilton (b. 1932), British jazz trumpeter and writer
- Kevin Patrick "Chily" Chilton (b. 1954), 4-star General in the USAF and NASA astronaut
- Mark Chilton (b. 1976), British cricketer
- Mark H. Chilton (b. 1970), mayor of Carrboro, North Carolina
- Mary Chilton (b. 1607, d. 1676 x 1679), passenger on the Mayflower
- Robert H. Chilton (1815–1879), brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War; Chief of Staff for Robert E. Lee
- Selina Chilton (b.1981), English actress
- Thomas Chilton (1798-1854), U.S. Representative from Kentucky, Baptist clergyman, ghost writer of David Crockett's autobiography
- Thomas H. Chilton (1899-1972), chemical engineer and professor
- Tom Chilton (b. 1985), British auto racing driver
- Tom Chilton (game developer) for the World of Warcraft game
- William Chilton (printer) (1815-1855) for the British printer, socialist, atheist, and evolutionist.
- William E. Chilton (1856–1939), United States Senator from West Virginia
- William Parish Chilton (1810–1871), lawyer, jurist, and politician serving Alabama and later the Confederate States of America.
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