Silton is a small village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated in the Blackmore Vale four miles (six kilometres) northwest of Gillingham.

[1] In 1086, Silton was recorded in the Domesday Book as Seltone;[2] it had 16 households, 11.5 ploughlands, 28 acres (11 hectares) of meadow and 4 mills.

It was in the hundred of Gillingham and the tenant-in-chief was William of Falaise.

[3] This original settlement was near the church, on a low ridge between the River Stour and a minor tributary to the southwest.

[4] Silton was for many years the country residence of Sir Hugh Wyndham (1602–1684), whose memorial by the sculptor Jan van Nost is in the parish church of St Nicholas.