Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LOSCOE

LOSCOE, a hamlet in Heanor parish, Derby; 1½ mile W of the Erewash river at the boundary with Notts, midway between the Erewash-Valley and the Ripley railways, and 5½ E of Belper. Pop. in 1851,451; in 1861,670. Houses, 126. It forms part of Codnor chapelry, and has a Baptist chapel.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Heanor AP/CP       Derbyshire AncC
Place: Loscoe

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