Place:Chilson, Oxfordshire, England

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NameChilson
Alt namesShorthamptonsource: hamlet in civil parish
TypeChapelry, Civil parish
Coordinates51.873°N 1.536°W
Located inOxfordshire, England
See alsoChadlington Hundred, Oxfordshire, Englandancient county division in which it was located
Charlbury, Oxfordshire, Englandancient parish of which it was a chapelry
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Chilson is a hamlet and civil parish in the Evenlode Valley in the district of West Oxfordshire District of Oxfordshire, England. It is located about 4 1⁄2 miles (7 km) south of Chipping Norton. The civil parish also includes the hamlet of Shorthampton, about 2⁄5 mile (1 km) northeast of Chilson. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 141.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Chilson from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"CHILSON, a hamlet in Shorthampton chapelry, Oxford; 4½ miles S of Chipping-Norton. Real property, with Pudlicott, £2,097."

A Vision of Britain through Time states that Chilson was a chapelry of the ecclesiastical parish of Charlbury.

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