Tilston

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Tilston is a village and a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. At the 2001 Census, the population was recorded as 627,^[1] reducing to 603 at the 2011 census.^[2]

St Mary's Church, Tilston, is a Grade II* listed building.

Tilston stands on the site of the Roman town of Bovium,^[3] which was a staging post on the Roman road (similar to Watling Street) between the larger settlements at Deva Victrix (modern-day Chester) and Viroconium (Wroxeter).^[4]

In 1066 after the Battle of Hastings the area of present-day Tilston was taken from the Anglo-Saxons. Hugh Lupus, thought to be a nephew of King William I, was given extensive areas of Cheshire by the King, to assume the title of Earl of Chester from 1071. Lupus then gave parts of this land to his supporters. The village of Tilston was given to the knight Eynion who assumed the title Eynion de Tilston. The Manor of Tilston was located in the Welsh Marches, the area along the English border with Wales. In the 12th century, Wales was not part of the Kingdom of England and the Welsh conducted frequent raids across the border into England, until Wales was conquered in the late 13th Century by Edward I. The Tilston lords lived in a castle on the manor, with the family eventually losing the manor during the demise of feudalism in England.

• Listed buildings in Tilston

• Tilston Parish Council's website
• Early History of the Tillotson Family in England
• Eynion
• Tilson Genealogy
• Tillotson

Media related to Tilston at Wikimedia Commons