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.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
