Kilton
Ruins of the 13th century Kilton Castle
Kilton is located in North Yorkshire
Kilton
Kilton
Location within North Yorkshire
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
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54°33′N 0°55′W / 54.550°N 0.917°W / 54.550; -0.917

Kilton is a village in the civil parish of Lockwood, in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland, in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England.[1]

History

The village is recorded in the Domesday Book as Chiltune,[2] which is possibly derived from a combination of Old Norse and Old English of "narrow-valley farm/settlement' or a Scandinavianised form of cilda-tun, 'children's farm/settlement."[3] The village is to the west of Kilton Beck Valley, a narrow cut that carries the Kilton Beck to the sea at Skinningrove.[4] The remains of Kilton Castle lie to the south east and the village is 7 miles (11 km) east of Guisborough and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of Brotton.[5]

In the 13th century, Kilton Castle was the base of the rebel Will Wither.[6]

Kilton was formerly a township in the parish of Brotton,[7] in 1866 Kilton became a separate civil parish,[8] on 1 April 1974 the parish was abolished.[9] In 1951 the parish had a population of 250.[10]

References

  1. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 94 Whitby & Esk Dale (Robin Hood’s Bay) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2012. ISBN 9780319228999.
  2. ^ "Kilton | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  3. ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 276. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
  4. ^ "Kilton Beck from Middle Gill Beck to North Sea". environment.data.gov.uk. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  5. ^ "Genuki: Brotton, Yorkshire (North Riding)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  6. ^ "Medieval Teesside" (PDF). Tees Archaeology. 11 June 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  7. ^ "History of Kilton, in Redcar and Cleveland and North Riding". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  8. ^ "Relationships and changes Kilton Tn/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  9. ^ "Cleveland Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  10. ^ "Population statistics Kilton Tn/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 1 December 2023.


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