Kilton, North Yorkshire Explained

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 east of Guisborough and 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]

Notes and References

1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 94 Whitby & Esk Dale (Robin Hood’s Bay). 9780319228999 . Ordnance Survey. 2012.
2. Web site: Kilton Domesday Book . opendomesday.org . 22 December 2019.
3. Book: Ekwall . Eilert . The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names . 1960 . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 0-19-869103-3 . 276 . 4.
4. Web site: Kilton Beck from Middle Gill Beck to North Sea . environment.data.gov.uk . 22 December 2019.
5. Web site: Genuki: Brotton, Yorkshire (North Riding) . www.genuki.org.uk . 22 December 2019 . en.
6. Web site: Medieval Teesside. 11 June 2012. Tees Archaeology . 2015-08-10.
7. Web site: History of Kilton, in Redcar and Cleveland and North Riding. A Vision of Britain through Time. 1 December 2023.
8. Web site: Relationships and changes Kilton Tn/CP through time. A Vision of Britain through Time. 1 December 2023.
9. Web site: Cleveland Registration District. UKBMD. 1 December 2023.
10. Web site: Population statistics Kilton Tn/CP through time. A Vision of Britain through Time. 1 December 2023.