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Chilswell is a small settlement in the parish of Cumnor, Oxfordshire (formerly in Berkshire). It lies between the village of South Hinksey and Boars Hill.

An older form of the name is Childsworth, and the place is mentioned by that name in the poem Thyrsis by Matthew Arnold. Arnold's "signal elm" is in a field nearby.

The remains of a Roman villa have been found nearby.^[1]

Chilswell House, on the edge of Boars Hill, was once the home of the poet Robert Bridges.