Gilson is a

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in the

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of Coleshill, in the

North Warwickshire North Warwickshire is a local government district with borough status in Warwickshire, England. The borough includes the two towns of Atherstone (where the council is based) and Coleshill, and the large villages of Hartshill, Kingsbury, Ma ...

district of

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, England. It lies between the M42 and the A446, on the B4117 road between the village of

Water Orton Water Orton is a village and civil parish in the North Warwickshire borough of Warwickshire in the West Midlands, England near the River Tame. It is located between Castle Bromwich and Coleshill, and borders the West Midlands metropolitan c ...

and the small

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of Coleshill.

History

The first British record of the now extinct ''Aracites interglacialis'' Wieliczk was discovered in Gilson. The settlement was recorded as Gudlesdone in 1232, coming from "Gyddel's Hill," itself a derivative of the name Gydda. In the late

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, Gilson - a lordship in its own right - contained a cluster of homesteads. By 1840, a

Religious Tract Society The Religious Tract Society was a British evangelical Christian organization founded in 1799 and known for publishing a variety of popular religious and quasi-religious texts in the 19th century. The society engaged in charity as well as commerc ...

provided the residents of Gilson, and neighbouring villages and towns, with tracts. Gilson's Coleshill Hall, now Coleshill Manor, was home to the Coleshill Hall

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which was a

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established in 1929. It is a

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Listed Building.

References

Hamlets in Warwickshire Borough of North Warwickshire {{Warwickshire-geo-stub