Tilty is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. It lies north-west of Dunmow, its post town. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 102.
Tilty was recorded in the Domesday Book as Tileteia. It was historically also known as Tylsey.p.73, Alison Plowden, Lady Jane Grey: Nine Days Queen, p.73, 2003, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing
Tilty's parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, and is Grade I listed. The building is the surviving chapel from the monastery of Tilty Abbey, which was dissolved in the 1530s; the nave was built circa 1220.
Another listed building is the derelict Grade II* Tilty Mill, which dates from the early 18th century.
See also The Hundred Parishes
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Vision of Britain British Listed Buildings St Mary The Virgin's Church, Tilty