Tilty or Tylsey is a village and a
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...
in the
Uttlesford
Uttlesford is a local government district in Essex, England. Its council is based in the market town of Saffron Walden. At the 2011 Census, the population of the district was 79,443. Other notable settlements include Great Dunmow, Elmdon, Stebbi ...
district, in the county of
Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...
, England. In 2001 the population of the civil parish of Tilty was 98.
Tilty's church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, and is Grade I
listed
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. It was originally a chapel of
Tilty Abbey
Tilty Abbey was a Cistercian abbey in Tilty, Essex, England. It was Dissolution of the Monasteries, dissolved 3 March 1536. The chapel, with a nave built circa 1220, became a parish church and has survived, with later alterations and extensions.
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, which was dissolved in the 1530s; the nave was built circa 1220. A further listed building is the derelict Grade II* Tilty Mill, which dates from the early 18th century. Tilty was recorded in the Domesday Book as ''Tileteia''.
See also
*
The Hundred Parishes
The Hundred Parishes is an area of the East of England with no formal recognition or status, albeit that the concept has the blessing of county and district authorities. It encompasses around 450 square miles (1,100 square kilometres) of northwes ...
References
External links
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Vision of BritainBritish Listed Buildings
Villages in Essex
Civil parishes in Essex
Uttlesford
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