Gilson, Warwickshire

Gilson is a hamlet in the civil parish of Coleshill, in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England.[1][2] It lies between the M42 and the A446, on the B4117 road between the village of Water Orton and the small market town of Coleshill.

History

The first British record of the now extinct Aracites interglacialis Wieliczk was discovered in Gilson.[3] The settlement was recorded as Gudlesdone in 1232, coming from "Gyddel's Hill," itself a derivative of the name Gydda.[4] In the late Middle Ages, Gilson - a lordship in its own right - contained a cluster of homesteads.[5] By 1840, a Religious Tract Society provided the residents of Gilson, and neighbouring villages and towns, with tracts.[6] Gilson's Coleshill Hall, now Coleshill Manor, was home to the Coleshill Hall Hotel which was a psychiatric hospital established in 1929.[7] It is a Grade II Listed Building.[8][9]

52.509°N 1.723°W / 52.509; -1.723

References
  1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 139 Birmingham & Wolverhampton (including The Black Country) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2012. ISBN 9780319231753.
  2. "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
  3. Field, Gibson, and Gibbard (2017). "East–West European Middle Pleistocene correlation – the contribution of the first British record of Aracites interglacialis Wieliczk". Acta Palaeobotanica. 57 (1): 101-108. doi:10.1515/acpa-2017-0002. S2CID 5035364.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. Gover, Mawer, and Stenton (1970). The Place-Names of Warwickshire, Vol. XIII. Cambridge, UK.: Cambridge University Press. p. 43.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. Beaman (Ed), Robert (2009). Warwickshire History Tvo. XIV.2. pp. 58–73.
  6. Sibree and Caston. Independency in Warwickshire: a brief history of the Independent or Congregational churches in that county. Coventry, UK: G. and F. King. p. 383.
  7. Coleshill Hall Hospital. "Coleshill Hall Hospital". The National Archives. Warwickshire County Record Office. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  8. "Coleshill Hall Hospital and Attached Coach House and Stable Block". Historic England. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  9. Pevsner, Wedgwood (1996). The Buildings of England: Warwickshire. p. 236.


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