[3] Marefield remains a separate civil parish, but is part of the Tilton Electoral Ward.

The village has one public house called the Rose & Crown and one general store.

[10] The railway cutting is a Geological Site of Special Scientific Interest and is owned and managed by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust.

The first known mention of a religious establishment in Tilton is a reference in the Domesday Book of 1086 to a priest.

Hussey, which led to the removal of the gallery at the west end of the church, as well as the medieval chancel screen.

[13] St Peter's contains the tombs of Sir Johan de Diggebye and his wife, dated 1269.

[15] A Methodist Society began in Halstead in 1811,[16] and the Wesleyan chapel was built in 1813 on land let on a 99-year lease by T. Sikes esq.

[19] There are 5 Scheduled Ancient Monuments in Tilton parish:[20] St Peter's Church is grade I listed, while a further 18 buildings are grade II listed[26] Iron Ore was quarried to the east of Halstead on the north side of the Oakham Road between 1880 and about 1900, between 1912 and 1921 and between 1924 and 1961.

[27] The main visible remains of the quarry operation are the final gullet on the west side (dating from 1950) near Halstead House, the tipping dock, the supports of the former Bailey bridge and traces of the lorry road leading to it.

[28] In 1999, an army Lynx helicopter on a training flight from Dishforth Airfield in North Yorkshire crashed, killing 3 of the four people on board.