COLESHILL, a chapelry partly in the parish of
AMERSHAM, hundred of DACORUM, county of HERTFORD,
and partly in the parish of BEACONSFIELD,
hundred of BURNHAM, county of BUCKINGHAM, if mile
(S. by W.) from Amersham, Containing' 402 inhabitants.
Since the demolition of the chapel the inhabitants
have attended divine service at the parish church of
Amersham; they still pay their own poor and highway
rates. Here are manufactories for lace and common red
earthenware. Edmund Waller, the lyric poet, was born
here; he represented the borough of Amersham in three
parliaments, and died in 1687.