COLESHILL, a hamlet in Amersham and Beaconsfield parishes, Bucks; 1½ mile SW by S of Amersham. It has a post office under Amersham. Acres, 2, 810. Real property, £2, 825. Pop., 531. Houses, 120. An eminence here commands an extensive view. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the making of earthenware. Coleshill House belonged to the Bohuns and the Brudenells; and passed to the Eyleses. 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 early English style, at a cost of £1, 500. The hamlet forms a curacy with Amersham.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))