22-463: Coleshill may refer to: England [ edit ] Coleshill, Warwickshire , a town Coleshill, Buckinghamshire , a village and civil parish Coleshill, Oxfordshire , a village and civil parish (formerly Berkshire) nearby Coleshill House , destroyed "best Jonesian mid C17 house in England". Wales [ edit ] Coleshill, Flintshire ,
44-420: A hut circle is a circular or oval depression in the ground which may or may not have a low stone wall around it that used to be the foundation of a round house . The superstructure of such a house would have been made of timber and thatch. They are numerous in parts of upland Britain and most date to around the 2nd century BC. Hut circles are usually around 5 to 25 feet (1.5 to 7.6 m) in internal diameter,
66-405: A market , fair , and free warren. He died in 1316. His heir was his 12-year-old grandson, John, who subsequently married a daughter of Sir Roger Hilary, and died in 1353 or 1354 leaving one daughter Joan. She had as her first husband Sir John of Montfort , illegitimate son of Sir Peter de Montfort of Beaudesert . Coleshill Manor then passed to this branch of Sir Simon de Montford who moated
88-424: A double ring of granite slabs with a rubble infill – a technique still used in dry-stone walling . One, Hut 3, has a surviving porchway, with the two jamb stones still upright, although the lintel has fallen. There is good evidence of human activity: pottery, scrapers, and pot boilers were found in the huts during Victorian excavations. However, few organic artefacts survived in the acidic soil. Ashes were found at
110-456: A historic administrative subdivision of Flintshire See also [ edit ] Cole's Hill , an historical landmark in Plymouth, Massachusetts, US Coal Hill (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
132-591: Is a market town and civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire , England, taking its name from the River Cole , on which it stands. It had a population of 6,900 in the 2021 Census , and is situated 11 miles (18 km) east of Birmingham , 8.5 miles (13.7 km) southeast of Sutton Coldfield , 11 miles (18 km) south of Tamworth , 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Coventry by road and 13 miles (21km) west of Nuneaton . It borders
154-689: Is on Junction 4 of the M6, with Birmingham City Centre at Junction 6, Sutton Coldfield J5, Nuneaton , Bedworth and Coventry North at J3 and Coventry East at Junction 2. The town is connected to East Birmingham by the B4114 Road which subsequently creates a road connection into Birmingham City Centre. There is also a route to Coventry via the A446 , which becomes the A452 just before the A45 road junction at Stonebridge . Upon reaching
176-468: Is served by Coleshill Parkway railway station , which reopened in 2007, on the site of the previous Coleshill station, which had closed in 1968. It is on the Birmingham to Peterborough Line and is served half hourly by CrossCountry as part of their service between Birmingham , Nuneaton , Leicester , Peterborough , Cambridge and Stansted Airport . Historically the town was also served by Maxstoke on
198-600: Is served by both BBC WM on 95.6 FM and BBC CWR on 94.8 FM. Other radio stations received in the town are Heart West Midlands on 100.7 FM, Smooth West Midlands on 105.7 FM, Capital Mid-Counties on 96.2 FM, Greatest Hits Radio Birmingham & The West Midlands on 105.2 FM, and Hits Radio Coventry & Warwickshire on 97.0 FM. The town is served by local newspapers, Leamington Courier and Warwick Courier . Coleshill has been twinned with Chassieu near Lyons in France since 1983. Hut circle In archaeology,
220-712: The Iron Age , before the Roman conquest of 43 AD at the Grimstock Hill Romano-British settlement , north of the River Cole. Evidence of hut circles were found by archaeologists at the end of the 1970s. These excavations showed that throughout the Roman period there was a Romano-Celtic temple on Grimstock Hill. It had developed over the earlier Iron Age huts and had gone through at least three phases of development. The area
242-559: The Stonebridge Railway which closed in 1917 and Coleshill railway station, originally named Forge Mills, which closed in 1968. As a result until 2007, the town's nearest railway station was at Water Orton , some 2.5 miles (4 km) to the north-west. Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC West Midlands and ITV Central . Television signals are received from the Sutton Coldfield TV transmitter. The town
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#1732845094212264-489: The manor houses at Coleshill and Kingshurst . King Henry VII granted Coleshill Manor and its lands to Simon Digby in 1496 following the execution and forfeiture of Sir Simon de Montford for supporting the rebellion of Perkin Warbeck . The (Wingfield-Digby) family descendants still hold the titles. Coleshill village was granted a market charter by King John in 1207, alongside Liverpool , Leek and Great Yarmouth . During
286-633: The Western edge of Coventry, it is necessary to follow the A4114 road which now takes you to the city centre ring road A4053 after the A45 was diverted to run south of Coventry acting as a bypass . Two regular bus routes serve the town. The X13 (previously called X70) passes through Coleshill between Birmingham and Chelmsley Wood operated by National Express West Midlands . The 76 passes through between Tamworth and Sutton Coldfield operated by Diamond Bus . The town
308-528: The era of stagecoach and the turnpike trusts , Coleshill became important as a major staging post on the coaching roads from London to Chester , Liverpool and Holyhead . At one point there were over twenty inns in the town. The Coleshill to Lichfield Turnpike dates from 1743. Many former coaching inns remain in Coleshill, mostly along the High Street and Coventry Road. One of the most notable buildings in
330-439: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coleshill&oldid=948065966 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Coleshill, Warwickshire Coleshill ( / ˈ k oʊ z əl / KOH -zəl )
352-644: The north. Hut circles are particularly numerous on Dartmoor , where there are an estimated 5,000. One of the best-known sites is Grimspound , which is exceptionally well preserved owing to its solid stone construction, the numerous hut circles being enclosed by a stone wall. It dates to the Late Bronze Age . It was first settled about 1300 BC. The 24 hut circles are surrounded by a massive granite perimeter wall, which may have stood 5 feet 7 inches (1.7 m) tall in places. The roundhouses, with an average diameter of 11 feet (3.4 m), were each built of
374-538: The parish village of Kingshurst in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull to the west. It is also home to the 502 year The Coleshill School seated next to the dual carriageway. Coleshill is located on a ridge between the rivers Cole and Blythe which converge to the north with the River Tame . It is adjacent to the border with West Midlands county, and is just outside Birmingham . Coleshill began life in
396-484: The rocks themselves being 2–3 feet (0.61–0.91 m) wide and around 3 feet (0.91 m) high. Hut circles were also almost certainly covered by conical rounded roofs and supported by posts that were internal and sometimes external. There are more than 100 registered hut circles and enclosures in Wales. They are to be found in areas which have not been ploughed and the stones have not been disturbed. They are quite common in
418-537: The south door are the preserved remains of a medieval cross. Church Street is the location of the town's pillory and whipping post, which were last used in 1863. A bronze sculpture by Peter Walker in the High Street shows three themes of the town's origins: a stagecoach wheel, a visiting circus elephant and the creation of the Typhoo Tea brand by John Sumner . The town is close to the M6 , M6 Toll and M42 motorways . It
440-527: The town is the parish's Church of St Peter and St Paul at the top of the Market Square. It has a 52-metre (170 ft) high steeple , one of the finest in Warwickshire, dating from the 13th century. Inside there is a 12th-century font of Norman origin, which is one of the finest examples in the country. There are also medieval table tombs with effigies of knights, including John de Clinton. Just outside
462-610: Was a Royal Manor held by King Edward the Confessor and is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as land held by William the Conqueror and the site of the court for the ancient hundred of Coleshill. In 1284/5 John de Clinton, elder, was granted Coleshill Manor by King Henry II , and claimed by prescription within the lordship of Coleshill, Assize of bread and ale, gallows, pillory, tumbrell and court leet, infangthef and utfangthef,
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#1732845094212484-503: Was at the junction of two powerful Celtic Tribes – the Coritanii to the east from Leicester , and to the west the Cornovii from Viroconium Cornoviorum . In the post Roman or Arthurian period (The Dark Ages ), the nucleus of Coleshill moved about a kilometre to the south, to the top of the hill. Here the present church is set and the medieval town developed around it. By 1066 the town
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