BILTON, a township, joint with Harrogate, in that part of the parish of KNARESBOROUGH which is in the lower division of the wapentake of CLARO, West riding of the county of YORK, 2 miles (W.) from Knaresborough. The population is returned with Harrogate. A free school is endowed with about £30 per annum, given by Richard Taylor, in -1785. In tlie neighbourhood are several petrifying springs, and one with a sulphureous impregnation.