Just outside the village is the Grade II* listed Chilton Lodge which was built in 1800. It replaced an earlier house a quarter of a mile to the north-west, which was demolished. Chilton Park Farm, a house in neo-Georgian style, was built on that site in 1940.

The parish church is St. Mary's which dates from c.1300 and was restored in the mid-19th century when the south aisle was added. The churchyard has an early 19th-century mausoleum to the Pearce family. John Pearce was a director, and later the governor of the Bank of England and a member of parliament. He lived at Chilton Lodge.

Much of the Kennet floodplain within the parish has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), owing to the presence of the rare Desmoulin's whorl snail. An area of water-meadow south-west of the village, Chilton Foliat Meadows, is also an SSSI for its diverse flora and variety of birds.

Chilton Foliat is on the B4192 Hungerford-Swindon road about 1.5 miles north-west of Hungerford.