COULSDON, a parish in the first division of the hundred of WALLINGTON, county of SURREY, 5 miles (S. by"W.) from Croydon, containing 516 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Surrey, and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at £21. 16. 5., and in the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is dedicated to St. John the Evangelist.