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Coleshill occurs as market town in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England, taking its title from either a River Cole. It has the people of 6,343 (2001 nosecount).

Coleshill is next to a border sustaining the West Midlands, just outside Birmingham, but the a portion of the West Midlands conurbation. It has non been all enveloped per latter, & the narrow wedge of open countryside lies between Coleshill & Birmingham, northward of the point in which Coleshill meets Solihull. In the 1970s, Coleshill narrowly avoided being absorbed into Birmingham.

Coleshill dates back to Saxon times, (although a Roman temple was discovered nearby in the Seventies) however became significant as a staging post on the coaching road from London to Holyhead. At one point there were on top assibilate twenty inns in the town.

One of a virtually all notable buildings in the town is the Church of St Peter & St Paul which has the 52 metre (170ft) high steeple, dating from a 13th century, and the 12th century font.

A town is or so a M6 and M42 motorways.

Coleshill Web
Local guide to the area.

Manor House Rural Retreats
Period English cottage accommodation.

Coleshill Operatic Society
Includes details of past upcoming productions, together a history of the society and with booking information.






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