Description
Coleshill, a hamlet, a township, and a chapelry in Amersham parish, Bucks, 1 1/2 mile SW by S of Amersham, under which there is a post office; money order and telegraph office, Amersham. Acreage, 1850 ; population, 516. An eminence here commands an extensive view. Waller the poet was a native, and is said to have written some of his pieces under an old oak, now 35 feet round. Some points within the hamlet command very fine views. A church was erected here in 1861, in the Gothic style, at a cost of £1500. The hamlet forms a curacy with Amersham.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
