Coleshill History 

Coleshill is a village on the road to Highworth, situated on the top of the next hill after Badbury Hill and a little under 4 miles south-west from Faringdon. The 2011 Census recorded the parish’s population as 156. The village lies on the hill beside the River Cole, which drains into the Thames just below Lechlade. The village is now part of the Buscot and Coleshill Estate, which totals some 7,500 acres comprising of 11 farms, 290 acres of in hand woodland, and 550 acres of woodland let to the Forestry Commission. The estate, including the villages of Buscot, Coleshill and Eaton Hastings is now almost entirely owned by the National Trust (only 4 houses are in private ownership), a total of 151 cottages. (Colleshylle c.950: OE/Latin collis ‘hill’; OE/Anglo-Saxon hyll ‘hill’; or maybe just a hill farm occupied by the Cole family.)