Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Coleshill

Coleshill, market town and par. with ry. sta., N. Warwickshire, on river Cole, 10 miles NE. of Birmingham and 108 miles NW. of London, 6200 ac., pop. 2356; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks, 1 newspaper. Market-day, Wednesday; contains Coleshill House and Coleshill Park, the latter the seat of Earl Digby, to whom Coleshill gives the title of viscount.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "market town and parish with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Coleshill AP/CP       Warwickshire AncC
Place: Coleshill

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