About the town » Chilbolton, Hampshire, England, Great Britain

Chilbolton is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England, near to Stockbridge. Its most notable feature is the Chilbolton Observatory situated on the disused RAF Chilbolton airfield. The parish church of St Mary the Less dates back to the 12th century, on the site of an earlier wooden church.Chilbolton is recorded in the Domesday Book under the name Cilbodentune.