CHILTON, a parish in the hundred of ASHENDON, county of BUCKINGHAM, 3 miles (N. by W.) fromThame, containing, with the hamlet of Easington, 379 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Lincoln, endowed with £8 per annum and £200 private benefaction, and £800 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Sir J. Aubrey, Bart. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, contains some fine monuments belonging to the Croke family. In 1639, Sir George Croke, Knt. founded eight almshouses at Studley, in the county of Oxford, with an endowment produchig annually £41.12., for four men and four women belonging to the parishes of Chilton, Hadleigh, and Waterstoke, alternately. Sir George Croke, the celebrated lawyer, famous for his determined opposition to the tax of ship-money, in the reign of Charles I., was born, and lies buried, here.