TILTON, a parish partly in the hundred of GARTREE,
but chiefly in the eastern division of the
hundred of GOSCOTE, county of LEICESTER, 8 miles
(W. S. W.) from Oakham, containing, with the townships
of Halstead and Marefield, 399 inhabitants. The
living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Leicester,
and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at
£ 12. 16. 8., and in the patronage of the Rev. George
Greaves, The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is partly in
the later style of English architecture. Here was an
ancient hospital, which Sir William Burdet annexed to
Burton-Lazars, in the tune of Henry II.