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Cossipore, Kolkata — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Cossipore is one of the oldest neighbourhoods of North Kolkata, named after Mulakchand Dewan Kashinathji, who was gifted it by Lord Clive.
About Cossipore
Where to stay in Cossipore
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North Kolkata holds the older streets. Cossipore sits among them, one of the earliest neighbourhoods of the metropolis, and a stay here puts the Gun and Shell Factory Museum and the local police station within the same few blocks. Beds are thinner here than toward the middle of Kolkata, so many visitors book centrally and travel north for the day.
If you want a base in the older part of the city rather than its centre, Cossipore in the Kolkata district of West Bengal answers, with the Gun and Shell Factory Museum a short walk off.
About Cossipore
What are the main landmarks in Cossipore?
One museum carries the name of the works. The Gun and Shell Factory Museum is the landmark recorded in Cossipore, and it stands in one of the oldest neighbourhoods that the Kolkata district contains. A police station serves the area.
Nothing else in the record stands beside it, and the museum's name is the clearest trace Cossipore keeps of the works it commemorates.
What is the history of Cossipore?
Cossipore took its name from Mulakchand Dewan Kashinathji, its one-time owner, who had been gifted the ground by Lord Clive, and the name has been kept ever since. It ranks among the oldest neighbourhoods of the metropolis. That age places it firmly in North Kolkata's early fabric, within the Kolkata district of the Indian state of West Bengal.
A police station and the Gun and Shell Factory Museum stand within it. Both sit inside Cossipore.
Where is Cossipore?
Cossipore belongs to North Kolkata. The neighbourhood lies within the Kolkata district, in the Indian state of West Bengal, and counts among the earliest parts of the metropolis to carry a name of its own.
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Updated September 2026