Cowley
Cowley is a village contiguous with the town of Uxbridge in the London Borough of Hillingdon. A largely suburban village with 16 listed buildings, Cowley is 15.4 miles west of Charing Cross, bordered to the west by Uxbridge Moor in the Green Belt and the River Colne, forming the border with Buckinghamshire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 8,780 residents
- Description: village in the London Borough of Hillingdon
- Also known as: “Cowley, London”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Laurence and The Crown.
The Crown
Pub
Photo: Suntooooth, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Crown is a Grade II listed public house at High Street, Cowley, London. It dates from the 16th century.
The Shovel, Cowley
Pub
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Malt Shovel is a Grade II listed public house at Iver Lane, Cowley, London. It was built early 19th century. It is now called The Malt Shovel. The Shovel appeared in the 1956 biopic Reach for the Sky about the RAF airman, Douglas Bader with the location being portrayed as rural France during World War II.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yiewsley and Hillingdon.
Yiewsley
Suburb
Photo: John Goodall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Yiewsley is a large suburban village in the London Borough of Hillingdon, England, 2 miles south of Uxbridge, the borough's commercial and administrative centre.
Hillingdon
Suburb
Photo: Missy Atko, CC BY 2.0.
Hillingdon is an area of Uxbridge within the London Borough of Hillingdon, centred 14.2 miles west of Charing Cross. It was an ancient parish in Middlesex that included the market town of Uxbridge.
Uxbridge
Town
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Uxbridge is a suburban town in west London, England, and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Hillingdon, 15.4 miles northwest of Charing Cross.
Cowley
- Categories: area of London and locality
- Location: Hillingdon, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.52793° or 51° 31′ 41″ northLongitude
-0.47938° or 0° 28′ 46″ westPopulation
8,780Elevation
121 feet (37 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CY2Open location code
9C3XGGHC+56OpenStreetMap ID
node 8402268482OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Cowley” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cowley (Londres)”
- Basque: “Cowley”
- Cebuano: “Cowley”
- Dutch: “Cowley”
- French: “Cowley”
- Hindi: “काउली, लंदन”
- Irish: “Cowley, Londain”
- Irish: “Cowley”
- Japanese: “カウリー (ロンドン)”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Little Britain i Buckinghamshire”
- Polish: “Cowley”
- Swedish: “Cowley, London”
- Swedish: “Cowley”
- Turkish: “Cowley”
- Urdu: “کاولی، لندن”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cowley Post Office and Cowley St Laurence CofE Primary School.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cowley”. Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.