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Our National Trust Pub

The Radnor Arms is a freehouse pub and was originally the village Smithy, where horses would come for their horseshoes and other equipment was forged. It was converted to a pub in 1949. The building is owned by the National Trust as part of the Buscot and Coleshill Estates.

The pub is perfect for booking parties, with traditional decor, lots of space and a large garden with car park, plus free parking on the road outside.

It is perfectly situated for exploring the National Trust countryside and walkers, cyclists and dog-walkers take advantage of this at all times of the year, with a welcome stop at the pub for refreshments as a reward for their efforts.

Coleshill History

Coleshill House
Coleshill House was a grand country house on the edge of the village of Coleshill in the Vale of White Horse. Unfortunately it was gutted by fire in 1952 and demolished in 1958. The building may have been designed by Inigo Jones and was built by Sir Roger Pratt around 1660. Nikolaus Pevsner described it as “the best Jonesian mid C17 house in England”.
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WW2
During the Second World War Coleshill House was requisitioned as the training headquarters for the Auxiliary Units, the secret British Resistance in the event of a German invasion. The house was sold by the Playdell-Bouverie family in 1946 and bought by Ernest Cook, grandson of the travel agent Thomas Cook. Substantial renovations were almost complete by 1952 when the house was badly damaged by the fire that gutted the house within a matter of hours.

The shell was demolished in 1958, leaving only four pairs of gate piers from the mid-17th century. Cook gave the estate to the National Trust. Visitors can now walk around the parkland and see the National Trust village, cafe and workshops.