BILTON, a parish in the Rugby division of the hundred of KNIGHTLOW, county of WARWICK, !§ mile (W. S.w.) from Rugby, containing 401 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Coventry, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, rated in the king's books at £16. 10. 7v and in the patronage of the Rev. J. T. Parker. The church, dedicated to St. Mark, is principally Norman, of which style it exhibits some good specimens; the tower and spire are of later date. Bilton Hall, with the estate belonging to it, was purchased, in the early part of the last century, by Joseph Addison, Esq., the poet and moralist, who spent a considerable portion of the latter part of his life here, where he wrote his "Evidences of the Christian Religion," Miss Addison, his only child, retired hither towards the close of her life, where she died, in 1797. A school was endowed with £ 20 per annum, the bequest of Langton Freeman, Esq., in 1783.