Coleshill was a historic administrative division of Flintshire, Wales.
It was recorded in the Domesday Book as the vill of "Coleselt" and as "Coleshull" by Gerald of Wales.
[1][2] The name is of Old English origin, with the first element probably being the personal name Col.[3] The vill boundaries were perpetuated as those of Coleshill Fawr and Coleshill Fechan townships, which lay in Holywell parish north-west of the borough of Flint;[1] Coleshill also subsequently gave its name to a commote, and later a hundred, of Flintshire.
It was also supposedly the site of a battle in 1150 between Owain Gwynedd and Madog ap Maredudd of Powys, in which the latter was defeated.
[6] In more recent times the name was remembered in that of Coleshill Farm, Flint[1] and is now used for one of the town's electoral wards.