The story
- Old English · inherited fromċilda tūn
- English todayChilton
From Old English ċilda tūn, a compound of ċilda (genitive plural of ċild (“child”)) + tūn (“town”). The name of Chilton, Oxfordshire is attested under various spellings in Medieval Latin texts of the 11th and 12th centuries: Cilda tun, Childatun, Chiltune, Chiltuna, Ciltone, Cilletone (in the Domesday Book), and Childestuna.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.