The name may simply derive from the appearance of the unmetalled road up the hill, with deep cartwheel ruts scored into the red earth.

The mound is almost gone but the cover slab remains – with a hollow in it that collects the rainwater, giving its name The Water Stone – burial chamber.

[4] Just south of the village, in the deep hollow and a quarter of a mile beyond the church is Lye Hole, where there is a stream of water, which runs into the Congresbury Yeo.

By late Saxon times and at the Norman Conquest in 1066, what is now known as Redhill comprised two of the three tythings of the Manor of Wrington (“Weritone").

These were Lye Hole, to the East of the main Bridgwater Road, adjoining Butcombe and Broadfield Down, to the West.

In the middle 13th century, a detailed list of the tenants of the manor shows 104 people holding from three to 40 acres (16 ha) each; eight cottagers with a garden; three millers who also had land; one priest and four freeholders.

The Bell Inn (subsequently the Darlington Arms) provided facilities the stabling, watering and changing of horses, and carters cottages were built along the road.

Winters Lane is thought to have once been the main road of Redhill leading up to the ancient settlement in Goblin Combe.

In September 2008, a memorial concert for the singer Ian Stuart Donaldson of the neo-Nazi band Skrewdriver, attended by 800 people, was held in the 2-acre (8,100 m2) fields of "The Bungalow Inn" public house.

The actual neo-Nazi-themed event was filmed by local residents, who have on video shouts of Sieg Heil from the rally inside "The Bungalow Inn" pub premises.

The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, such as the village hall or community centre, playing fields and playgrounds, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning.

The parish falls within the unitary authority of North Somerset which was created in 1996, as established by the Local Government Act 1992.

[8] The parish is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom as part of the North Somerset constituency.

At the foot of Sutton Hill a brook rises nearby and flows past Lye Hole and Cowslip Green to join the River Yeo near Perry Bridge on the A38, Bridgwater Road .

Christ Church, Redhill's chapel of ease was first erected in 1843 and consecrated in the following year by the Bishop of Salisbury.

Built by James Wilson it is of Lancet style, with a west tower, a nave without aisles and a short chancel.

It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building,[10] Its exposure to the prevailing west winds meant that rain was soon permeating the porous local limestone.