Chilton is a village and civil parish in Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England.
The toponym "Chilton" is derived from the Old English for "young man's farm".
[2] Before the Norman conquest of England Alric, son of Goding, a thegn of Edward the Confessor, held the manors of Chilton and Easington.
[2] However, the Domesday Book records that by 1086 the Norman baron Walter Giffard held the two manors.
[2] Chilton House was built by John Croke in the early 17th century, then rebuilt by Richard Carter in the 1740s.