Wilton is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States.

[2] Like many small New England towns, it grew up around water-powered textile mills, but is now a rural bedroom community with some manufacturing and service employment.

The main village in town, where 1,324 people resided at the 2020 census, is defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as the Wilton census-designated place and is located near the junction of New Hampshire Routes 31 and 101, at the confluence of Stony Brook with the Souhegan River.

The town was first part of a township chartered as "Salem-Canada" in 1735 by Colonial Governor Jonathan Belcher of Massachusetts, which then claimed this area.

It was granted to soldiers from Salem, Massachusetts, who had served in 1690 under Sir William Phips in the war against Canada.

"Salem-Canada" was one of the towns on the state's borders intended to provide protection against Indian attack.

[3] The area was regranted in 1749 by New Hampshire colonial Governor Benning Wentworth as "Number Two", before being incorporated in 1762 as "Wilton".

Today, Wilton is a rural town with orchards, farms and woodlands.