English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Tilton

Early-attested site in the Parish of Alciston

Historical Forms

  • Telitone, Telentone 1086 DB
  • Telletona, Telletun 1189 Ch 1335 FF 1198 SAC5,157 12th FF 1249
  • Teleton 1245 FF 1328 Ch
  • Tiletone 13th HMCiii.223
  • Tilton 1765 FM
  • Telton 1336 Rental 1511 FM
  • Tielton 1401 FA
  • Toleton al. Telton 1428 FA
  • Telton al. Tilton 1688 FM

Etymology

'Telia 's farm,' v. tun , or possibly Tylla 's, Tylla being an unrecorded form (with mutation) of OE  Tulla .

Places in the same Parish