HILTON, a township in the parish of MARSTON-upon-DOVE,
hundred of APPLETREE, county of DERBY,
s miles (W. S. W.) from Derby, containing 533 inhabitants.
A school-house was erected about 1655, by
Arthur and Thomas Hanison, and in 1781 the Commissioners
of enclosures allotted land for the support
of a schoolmaster, whose annual income is £20, for
teaching all the poor children of the parish.