Coldridge

{{Short description|Village in Devon, England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

|country= England

|region= South West England

|shire_county= Devon

|shire_district= Mid Devon

|official_name= Coldridge

| population = 498

| population_ref = (2011 UK Census)

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|coordinates = {{coord|50.853359|-3.85166|display=inline,title}}

|post_town= Crediton

|postcode_area=

|postcode_district=

|dial_code=

|constituency_westminster= Central Devon

|static_image_name = Coldridge Church - geograph.org.uk - 1053664.jpg

|static_image_alt = Coldridge Church

|static_image_caption = St Matthew's Church, Coldridge

}}

Coldridge or Coleridge{{cite web|url=http://visionofbritain.org.uk/place/4070|title=History of Coldridge in Mid Devon|publisher=Vision of Britain|accessdate=19 September 2019}} is a village and parish in central Devon, England. It appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Colrige, which is thought to mean ‘the ridge where charcoal is made’.{{cite web|url= http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~footprints1/dev1/coldridge/homepage.htm | title = Coldridge, Devon| website= Rootsweb| accessdate=1 November 2016}} It has a church dedicated to St Matthew dating from the 15th and early 16th century which is a Grade I listed building.{{cite web|url=http://www.devon.gov.uk/historiccoldridge| title = Coldridge |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161103235452/http://www.devon.gov.uk/historiccoldridge| archive-date= 3 November 2016| website = Devon County Council| accessdate=1 November 2016}}{{cite web|url=https://www.achurchnearyou.com/coldridge-st-matthew/ | title = St Matthew, Coldridge | website=A church near you | accessdate=1 November 2016}}

In 2021, investigations started as to whether John Evans, a medieval lord of the manor buried in the church, may in reality have been the missing Edward V, one of the princes in the Tower, whose mother Elizabeth Woodville travelled to Devon in 1484 and whose son Thomas Grey owned land at Coldridge. The church contains an unusual stained glass portrait of Edward V, and other alleged clues. The investigations have been set up by writer and historian Philippa Langley, and follow suggestions originally made in the 1920s by local historian Beatrix Cresswell.[https://exeter.anglican.org/devon-church-holds-clues-to-princes-in-the-tower-mystery/ "Devon church holds clues to Princes in the Tower mystery", Diocese of Exeter, 4 January 2022]. Retrieved 9 January 2022[https://www.visitmiddevon.co.uk/visit-mid-devon-listings/st-matthews-church/ St Matthew's Church, VisitMidDevon]. Retrieved 9 January 2022

The name "Coleridge" is borne (among others) by a number of people associated with Eton College, including

• Sir Nicholas Coleridge, currently (October 2023) the provost-elect
• Frederick John Randolph Coleridge (vice-provost 1967-79){{cite web | url=https://catalogue.etoncollege.com/coll-vp-03 | title=COLL VP 03 | Eton Collections }}
• Coleridge House, a former boarding house demolished in 1937{{cite web | url=https://catalogue.etoncollege.com/object-fda-e-509-2013 | title=FDA-E.509-2013 | Eton Collections }}