Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

COSLANY, a sub-district, containing the parishes of St. Clement, St. Augustine, St. Martin-at-Oak, St. Mary-at-Coslany, St. Michael-at-Coslany, St. George-Colegate, and part of the parish of Hellesdon, in the district and city of Norwich. Pop., 13, 260. Houses, 3, 144.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Coslany by doing a full-text search here.


Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Mancroft 0 1
Pockthorpe 0 2
Heigham 0 2
Norwich 96 3
Conisford 0 1
New Catton 0 1
Thorpe Hamlet 0 3
Mousehold 0 2
Lakenham 0 2
Eaton 0 2
Hellesdon 0 2
Catton 0 2
Trowse 0 2
Earlham 0 2
Thorpe Next Norwich 1 4
Arminghall 0 2
Sprowston 0 2
Markshall 0 2
Cringleford 0 2
Bowthorpe 0 2