Earl Shilton

The village of Earl Shilton would evolve on Shilton Hill in what would be south Leicestershire [1]. Below the hill ran an ancient trackway known as the Salt Road, connecting east and west Leicestershire [1]. Earl Shilton lay in the kingdom of the Middle Angles [1]. Earl Shilton, like many English villages, first appears in recorded history in the Domesday Book of 1086 [1]. One of the parcels of land granted to Hugh de Grandmesnil by William the Conqueror was the village of Scheltone, now known as Earl Shilton [1].