Coulsdon, Surrey
Historical Description
Coulsdon or Cullesden, a parish in Surrey, with a station on the S.E.R., 16 miles from London. It has a post and money order office (S.O.); telegraph office at the railway station. Acreage, 4314; population, 4450. Coulsdon Court is the seat of the Bryon family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester; value, £634 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church has a curious monument of 1635, and is good. The Reedham Asylum for fatherless children is on one of the airy heights of the parish. One of the metropolitan lunatic asylums is also in this parish; it is a very fine and large building capable of holding about 3000 persons.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Surrey | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Coulsdon St. John the Evangelist | |
| Hundred | Wallington | |
| Poor Law union | Croydon |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The Parish Registers of Coulsdon, co. Surrey, 1653-1812 is available to purchase on CD-ROM from the shop.
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Surrey History Centre, have images of the Parish Registers for Surrey online.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Coulsdon from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Coulsdon (St. John the Evangelist))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Surrey is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Coulsdon are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Surrey papers online:
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Surrey, 1662-1668 is available on the Heraldry page.