Hilton, Staffordshire
| Hilton | |
| Staffordshire | |
|---|---|
 Cranebrook Lane, Hilton | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK081055 |
| Location: | 52°38’53"N, 1°52’52"W |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | WS14 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Lichfield |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Lichfield |
Hilton is a village in Staffordshire, within the parish of Wall-by-Lichfield, but barely inferior in size to that village. Hilton is found a mile and a half south-west of Wall and about three miles from Lichfield, and decisively separated from both by the M6 Toll motorway and the A5 trunk road.
The village is formed around two roads, Cranebrook Lane and Pouk Lane, although the M6 Toll Road was built and started operation in 2003, and passes along the northern edge of Hilton. The farmhouse at Barn Farm was an earlier barn, which was converted to a residential dwelling in 1901 and still contains parts of the former barn, such as the barn door hooks, which held the doors, upon its front.
The Crane Brook runs through Hilton and on to Chesterfield and is the source for Hilton's main road name of 'Cranebrook Lane'.
History
In the early Anglo-Saxon period, Two folk groups had their territories divided by highland, to the west of Hilton, the Pencersæte and Tomsæte: Hilton is likely to have fallen within the territory occupied by the Tomsæte.
According to Domesday Book, the minster that had been founded or re-founded at Wolverhampton by the lady Wulfrun, a Mercian noblewoman, in the 10th century held the vills of Ogley Hay and Hilton in this region, these estates almost interlocking with other vills held by Lichfield in 1086 - Wyrley and Norton Canes.