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The name Greenhills is applied to the western arm of Kilton and may be derived from grundales, meaning green strips, suggesting strips not always under plough. There are extensive ridge and furrow excavations but no medieval earthworks have been found. There must have been at least one farmstead in this area in medieval times. (Robert Daniels. 1990. Kilton: A Survey of Moorland Fringe Township in Medieval Rural Settlement in North East England. Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland Research Report No 2, edited by B E Vyner, page 36).
The 1767 map
records three farmsteads in this part of Kilton, one adjacent to Rough Close
with a farm building and enclosure; a second adjacent to Well Close and
comprising four buildings within an enclosure; and the third being a group of
three building situated at Greenhills on the west part of Kilton. The complex
of buildings at Greenhills developed between 1845 and 1856,
but did not constitute a courtyard farm.
Green Hills Farm,
1893
In the late nineteenth century Greenhills farm moved and it may
occupy much the same position as the eighteenth-century farm at Rough Close.
The farm survives today. (Robert Daniels. 1990. Kilton: A Survey of Moorland
Fringe Township in Medieval Rural Settlement in North
East England. Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and
Northumberland Research Report No 2, edited by B E Vyner, page 55).
Greenhills Farm,
2026