GOLESHILL, a parish partly in the hundred of HIGHWORTH-CRICKLADE-and-STAPLE, county of WILTS, but chiefly in the hundred of SHRIVENHAM, county of BERKS, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from Great Farringdon, containing, with the tything of Lynt, 324 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Berks, and diocese of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £17- 11. S., and in the patronage of the Earl of Radnor. The church, dedicated to All Saints, has, at the west end, an embattled tower with pinnacles, and contains some handsome monuments; the eastern window of the chancel exhibits some fine stained glass, representing the Nativity, presented by the Earl of Radnor, in 1787. Lord Simon Digby, in 1694, gave £500 for teaching and apprenticing poor children of the parish, and for other charitable purposes: in the same year; Offalia Rawlins made a donation of £100, with similar directions for its use; and, in 1706, the Rev. John Pinsent gave an estate, producing about £15 per annum, for apprenticing the children of such of the inhabitants of Coleshill and Great Coxj^ell as had never received parochial relief, with £5 to each. This parish derives its name from the elevated situation of the village above the river Cole, which forms the western boundary, and, gives the title of baron to the Earl of Radnor.