An 1868 Gazetteer description of the following places in Coulsdon

 

COULSDON

"COULSDON, (or Cullesden), a parish in the first division of the hundred of Wallington, in the county of Surrey, 2½ miles S. of the Caterham Junction station on the London and Brighton line, and 5 S. of Croydon, its post town.

The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Winchester, value £636, in the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church, dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, is a plain structure. The register commences in 1813. There are National schools for both sexes. Byron's charity produces about £5 per annum.

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
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