Filton
Filton is a suburban town and civil parish in South Gloucestershire, England, 6 miles north of Bristol. Along with nearby Patchway and Bradley Stoke, Filton forms part of the Bristol urban area and has become an overflow settlement for the city.Photo: Arpingstone, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 11,300 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Filton, Gloucestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Peter and Filton Abbey Wood Railway Station.
Filton Abbey Wood Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Filton Abbey Wood railway station serves the town of Filton in South Gloucestershire, England; it is located 4.4 miles from Bristol Temple Meads. There are four platforms but minimal facilities.
Aerospace Bristol
Museum
Photo: Hugh Llewelyn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aerospace Bristol is an aerospace museum at Filton, to the north of Bristol, England. The project is run by the Bristol Aero Collection Trust and houses a varied collection of exhibits, including Concorde Alpha Foxtrot, the final Concorde to be built and the last to fly.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brabazon and Stoke Gifford.
Brabazon
Suburb
Brabazon is a British mixed-use development located on land on the former Filton Airfield in South Gloucestershire, and is a new extension to the northern fringe of Bristol.
Stoke Gifford
Village
Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stoke Gifford is a neighbourhood and parish and electoral ward in the South Gloucestershire district, in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, England.
Southmead
Suburb
Southmead is a northern suburb and council ward of Bristol, in the south west of England, bordered by Filton in South Gloucestershire and Monks Park, Horfield, Henleaze and Westbury on Trym.
Filton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Filton, South Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.51175° or 51° 30′ 42″ northLongitude
-2.572° or 2° 34′ 19″ westPopulation
11,300Elevation
282 feet (86 metres)IATA airport code
FZOUnited Nations Location Code
GB FZOOpen location code
9C3VGC6H+M5OpenStreetMap ID
node 20942935OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2649452Wikidata ID
Q537692
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Satellite Map
Discover Filton from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Frisian—“Filton” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Filton”
- Basque: “Filton”
- Bengali: “ফিল্টন”
- Catalan: “Filton”
- Cebuano: “Filton”
- Chinese: “費爾頓”
- Chinese: “费尔顿”
- Dutch: “Filton”
- French: “Filton”
- German: “Filton”
- Gujarati: “ફિલટન”
- Hebrew: “פילטון”
- Irish: “Filton”
- Italian: “Filton”
- Japanese: “フィルトン”
- Kannada: “ಫಿಲ್ಟನ್”
- Korean: “필턴”
- Ladin: “Filton”
- Latin: “Filton”
- Lithuanian: “Filtonas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Filton”
- Persian: “فیلتون”
- Polish: “Filton”
- Portuguese: “Filton”
- Romanian: “Filton”
- Russian: “Филтон”
- Scots: “Filton”
- South Azerbaijani: “فیلتون”
- Spanish: “Filton (Gloucestershire)”
- Spanish: “Filton”
- Swedish: “Filton”
- Tamil: “பில்டன்”
- Tatar: “Филтон”
- Telugu: “ఫిల్ టన్”
- Turkish: “Filton”
- Urdu: “فیلٹن”
- Volapük: “Filton”
- Welsh: “Filton”
- Western Frisian: “Filton”
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