Coleshill, Berkshire

Description
Coleshill, a village in Berks, and a parish partly in Berks and. partly also in Wiltshire. The village stands on the river Cole, at the boundary between Berks and Wiltshire, 3 1/4 miles WSW of Faringdon station on the G.W.R., and 4 1/4 N of Shrivenham, consists chiefly of new, neat, uniform cottages, and has a post office under Swindon; money order and telegraph office, Highworth, Wiltshire. It gives the title of Baron to the Earl of Radnor. The parish is mainly in Berks, but includes Lynt, a pasture farm of 480 acres in Wiltshire. Acreage, 2014; population, 373. Coleshill House, the seat of the Bouverie family, is a quadrangular structure of 1660 by Inigo Jones, retaining its original character, and forming the finest specimen of Jones' taste and talent, and it contains a fine hall and commands splendid views. The grounds are remarkably beautiful. Vestiges of a Roman camp are seen at Binbury. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; value, £252 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Radnor. The church is a handsome structure, with pinnacled western tower, and contains a curious circular window, with the arms of Sir Mark Stuart Pleydell and his lady, a marble cenotaph by Rysbrach to their daughter, afterwards Countess of Radnor, and an eastern window representing the Nativity, brought from Angers. Charities, £150.