Country: | England |
Official Name: | Tilty |
Coordinates: | 51.9131°N 0.3253°W |
Os Grid Reference: | TL600264 |
Civil Parish: | Tilty |
Shire District: | Uttlesford |
Shire County: | Essex |
Region: | East of England |
Population: | 98 |
Population Ref: | (2001) |
Static Image: | St Mary the Virgin, Tilty, Essex - geograph.org.uk - 339745.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | Church of St Mary the Virgin |
Post Town: | DUNMOW |
Postcode District: | CM6 |
Postcode Area: | CM |
Dial Code: | 01279 |
London Distance Mi: | 35 |
London Direction: | SE |
Tilty or Tylsey[1] is a village and a civil parish in the Uttlesford district, in the county of Essex, England. In 2001 the population of the civil parish of Tilty was 98.[2] Tilty's church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, and is Grade I listed. It was originally a chapel of Tilty Abbey, 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.[3]