For the Irish Village see Colehill, County Longford Colehill on the R399 Colehill (Irish: ) is located in south-east County Longford, Ireland. ...

Colehill is a parish, neighbouring Wimborne Minster, in Dorset, England, with a population of 7,000 (2001).^[1] A parish is a type of administrative subdivision. ... The Minster Wimborne Minster is a market town in the East Dorset district of Dorset in South West England and the name of the church in that town. ... Dorset (pronounced DOR-sit or [dɔ.sət], and sometimes in the past called Dorsetshire) is a county in the south-west of England, on the English Channel coast. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... This article is about the year. ...

History

The name Colehill originated in 1431 as Colhulle, becoming Colhill in 1518 and Collehill in 1547, but the origins of Colehill as a settlement predate this by a long way.

Six round barrows, which can still be seen, show that people lived here as early as 2,000 BC. The River Stour would have been navigable and there is evidence that in about 500 BC peoples from Continental Europe were populating the South West, bringing with them the culture of the early Iron Age. Fortifications at Hengistbury Head and more forts inland were established then. Stour is the name of several rivers in England: River Stour, East Anglia River Stour, Worcestershire River Stour, Warwickshire River Stour, Kent. ... Iron Age Axe found on Gotland This article is about the archaeological period known as the Iron Age, for the mythological Iron Age see Iron Age (mythology). ...

Part of the tracks survive, running parallel to the river from the coastal fort through modern locations such as Parley and Stapehill to Badbury Rings. It is very likely that the line of Middlehill Road derives from these very early tracks. Badbury Rings Badbury Rings is an iron age hill fort in east Dorset, England, dating from 800 BCE and in use until the Roman occupation of 43 CE. The 330 ft (100 m) high, 7 hectare fort is encircled by three 40 ft (15 m) ramparts and four Bronze Age...

Later in Roman times Wimborne developed as an important trading centre on the River Stour, and as a junction for further tracks from Poole to Badbury Rings and on to Salisbury. Another track radiating eastward possibly set the line for what was to become in modern times the A31. Bridges replaced the fords (Canford) in about 100 AD. The A31 is a major trunk road in England running south west from Guildford in Surrey along the Hogs Back. ...

There then followed the Saxon invasion and the formation of the Kingdom of Wessex. Agriculture became established and with it clearance of some small plots on the sunny heathland slopes around Colehill. Over the centuries farms grew until, with the impetus of the Inclosure Acts (1750 to 1860), they were consolidated into the estates that we know of today - Kingston Lacy, Hanham and Uddens. For the helicopter, see Westland Wessex. ... The Inclosure Acts were a number of United Kingdom Acts of Parliament which inclosed common land in the country. ... Kingston Lacy Kingston Lacy is a stately home and estate near Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England, now owned by the National Trust. ...

Colehill Today

In Colehill there are three first or primary schools^[2]:namely, Colehill First School, Hayeswood School and St Catherine's. The middle school is St Michael's.. There is a Memorial Hall and also a County Library, which had been under threat of closure until recently. Colehill has two Post Offices (the Co-op Stores and the Furzehill Stores), a pharmacy and a hairdressers. The Parish Plan for Colehill has been published, and there will be a public meeting in the Memorial Hall at 7.30 pm on 18th June 2008 to discuss it and meet the Service Providers. First School is a term occasionally used in the United Kingdom for a primary school. ... A primary school in Český Těšín, Czech Republic. ... // Middle school serves as a bridge between the Elementary School and the High School. ...

There are a few fine old houses in Colehill dating from the 1860s. But rapid expansion took place in the last century. The population rose from 1786 in 1951 to 5370 in 1971. Several large estates of modern family homes were built and there is quite a lot of infill building. The Parish Church, Church of England, is St Michael and All Angels.^[3] It was designed by Caröe in 1893 and is a half brick and half timber construction in the Arts and Crafts style. Nearby and close to the War Memorial at the centre of the village are the Triangle Woods which has village green status. There are areas of common land, a recreation ground at Oliver's Park, and a Local Nature Reserve at Leigh Common. The area is well wooded and the local Forestry Commission Plantation at Cannon Hill is available for recreation. The Church of England is the officially established Christian church[3] in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the oldest among the communions thirty-eight independent national churches. ... A Local Nature Reserve or LNR is a statutory designation in England made under Section 21 of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 by principal local authorities. ...

Famous residents of Colehill include Tim Berners Lee, Howard Donald from Take That, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry and musician Paul Holman. Sir Tim Berners-Lee Sir Tim (Timothy John) Berners-Lee, KBE (TimBL or TBL) (b. ... Howard Paul Donald (born 28 April 1968 in Droylsden, Manchester, England) is an English singer and DJ. He is one fifth of the English boyband Take That. ... Take That are a British pop boy band formed by Nigel Martin Smith in Manchester in 1990. ... This article is about the band Aerosmith. ... Joe Perry may refer to: Joe Perry (American football) (born 1927) Joe Perry (musician) (born 1950) Joe Perry (snooker player) (born 1975) Joseph Perry (bishop) (born 1948) (real estate develoment) (born 1967) Category: ...

References

External links

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Coordinates: 50°48′N 1°58′W / 50.8, -1.967 Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...