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

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

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Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Heanor 0 2
Codnor 0 2
Aldercar 0 1
Langley Mill 0 2
Codnor Park 0 2
Denby 0 2
Marlpool 0 1
Langley 0 2
Brinsley 0 2
Smalley 0 2
Shipley 0 2
Eastwood 0 2
Ironville 0 2
Ripley 0 2
Pentrich 0 2
Butterley 0 2
Riddings 0 2
Mapperley 0 2
Kilburn 0 3
Pye Bridge 0 2