Hilton
Hilton DFL RHX S NT096834 1 394 35m
Hiltoun 1488 RMS ii no. 2053 [of the barony of Rossythe]
Hiltone of Rossitht 1497 Dunf. Recs. {74} [Wilyam Trumbull in the Hiltone of Rossitht]
Hiltoun de Rossyth 1534 RMS iii no. 1428
Hiltown 1642 Gordon MS Fife
Hiltoun 1654 Blaeu (Gordon) Fife
Hilltown 1753 Roy sheet 17, 5
Hilltown 1775 Ainslie/Fife
Hillton 1828 SGF
Hilton 1856 OS 6 inch 1st edn.
Sc hill + Sc toun
‘Hill farm or toun’. Part of the barony of Rosyth, it was a subdivision of the original estate of Rosyth, and is sometimes referred to as Hilton of Rosyth. In 1488 Sir David Stewart of Rosyth grants an annual rent of £10 from his lands of Hilton of the barony of Rosyth, in the same barony, to a chaplain for the celebration of the divine office at the altar of St Michael the Archangel in the parish kirk of the burgh of Inverkeithing (1488 RMS ii no. 2053).
This place-name appeared in printed volume 1