CHILTON-FOLIATT, a parish partly in the hundred of
KINTBURY-EAGLE, county of BERKS, but chiefly
in the hundred of KINWARDSTONE, county of WILTS
2 miles (N. W. by W.) from Hungerford, containing'
with the tything of Leverton, 777 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wilts, and
diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at
£ 14. 8. 9., and in the patronage of E. W. L. Popham,
Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a
place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. In 1770,
Roger and Elizabeth Ipanswick founded a charity
school, with an endowment now producing £20 per ann.,
to which Walter Bigg, in 1772, bequeathed £ 100, for
teaching poor boys and girls. This parish is crossed
by a small stream, called the Chilt, whence it derives
its name.