Gilson, Warwickshire Explained

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

Notes and References

  1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 139 Birmingham & Wolverhampton (including The Black Country). 9780319231753 . Ordnance Survey. 2012.
  2. Web site: Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer . csv (download) . 1 January 2016 . Ordnance Survey . www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk . 18 February 2016.
  3. Field, Gibson, and Gibbard . East–West European Middle Pleistocene correlation – the contribution of the first British record of Aracites interglacialis Wieliczk. . Acta Palaeobotanica . 2017 . 57 . 1 . 101-108 . 10.1515/acpa-2017-0002. 5035364 . free . 1887/71260 . free .
  4. Book: Gover, Mawer, and Stenton . The Place-Names of Warwickshire, Vol. XIII . 1970 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge, UK. . 43.
  5. Book: Beaman (Ed) . Robert . Warwickshire History Tvo. XIV.2 . 2009 . 58–73.
  6. Book: Sibree and Caston . Independency in Warwickshire: a brief history of the Independent or Congregational churches in that county . G. and F. King . Coventry, UK . 383.
  7. Web site: Coleshill Hall Hospital . Coleshill Hall Hospital . The National Archives . Warwickshire County Record Office . January 1, 2021 . CR 2016.
  8. Web site: Coleshill Hall Hospital and Attached Coach House and Stable Block . Historic England . January 1, 2021.
  9. Book: Pevsner, Wedgwood . The Buildings of England: Warwickshire . 1996 . 236.

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