Coleshill

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Coleshill

Total population

6,897

Coordinates52.50°, -1.71°

Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Coleshill is a market town and civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England, taking its name from the River Cole, on which it stands. It had a population of 6,900 in the 2021 Census, and is situated 11 miles (18 km) east of Birmingham, 8.5 miles (13.7 km) southeast of Sutton Coldfield, 11 miles (18 km) south of Tamworth, 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Coventry by road and 12.5 miles west of Nuneaton. It borders the suburban parish village of Kingshurst in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull to the west. It is also home to the 505-year-old Coleshill School seated next to the dual carriageway.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Dave Pegg

English bassist, multi-instrumentalist and record producer

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Conyers Kirby

English footballer and manager (1884-1946)

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Ian Atkins

English football player and manager (born 1957)

Simon Fowler

English musician (born 1965)

Jasper Carrott

British comedian

Felicity Kendal

British actress (born 1946)

Robert Firth

English footballer and football manager (1887-?)

Adam Walker

English footballer (born 1991)

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Alan Whitehead

English footballer, born 1951, played for Birmingham and KV Mechelen

A

Alfred Hill

English cricketer 1887-1959

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Bernard Quaife

English cricketer (1899-1984)

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Bill Lewis

English footballer (1871-?)

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Charlie Hare

English footballer (1870-1947)

Clive Arden

British writer

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Dave Massart

English footballer (1919-1993)

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Edward Burton

Professional footballer (1869-?)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in England

• Sutton Coldfield
  6.6 mi away
• Shirley
  7.9 mi away
• Fazeley
  8 mi away
• Tamworth
  9.4 mi away
• Bedworth
  10.2 mi away
• Smethwick
  11.2 mi away
• Brownhills
  13.6 mi away
• Darlaston
  14.8 mi away
• Halesowen
  14.9 mi away
• Bloxwich
  14.9 mi away
• Royal Leamington Spa
  16 mi away
• Cradley Heath
  16 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Coleshill

Around Coleshill

1996

Georgian Coleshill

2003

Coleshill remembered 1

Eric Miller · 1989

St. Peter & St. Paul, Coleshill

Morgan, Frank Vicar. · 1969

A yeoman of England

Plumb, Charles Henry Plumb Baron · 2002

Coleshill Model Farm Oxfordshire

1981

A sermon preached at Coles-hill in Warwickshire, January 24, 1685, on occasion of the death of the Right Honourable Simon Lord Digby, Baron Digby of Geashil in Ireland

John Kettlewell · 1686

A true relation, of the horrid and barbarous murther, committed on the bodys of Mr. Loggins, gent. and the ostler of the King's-Head in Coleshill

1686

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

White Wagtail

Motacilla alba

Seen 2026-09-17

Seven-spotted Lady Beetle

Coccinella septempunctata

Seen 2026-09-16

Fly Agaric

Amanita muscaria

Seen 2026-09-16

Common Wood-Pigeon

Columba palumbus

Seen 2026-09-16

Carrion Crow

Corvus corone

Seen 2026-09-16

chicken of the woods

Laetiporus sulphureus

Seen 2026-09-16

Oak Marble Gall Wasp

Andricus kollari

Seen 2026-09-16

Mallard

Anas platyrhynchos

Seen 2026-09-16

European Robin

Erithacus rubecula

Seen 2026-09-16

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers