Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Loscoe like this:

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.

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Travel writing

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