Cosby
Cosby is a village in the English county of Leicestershire. Cosby is located in the south of the county near the larger villages and towns of Whetstone, Blaby, Wigston and Oadby.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 3,730 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Leicestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Cosby, Leicestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Michael and All Angels and Narborough railway station.
Narborough railway station
Railway station
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Narborough railway station serves the large village of Narborough and the small village of Littlethorpe in Leicestershire. It is on the Birmingham to Peterborough Line about 7 miles southwest of Leicester.
Narborough Bog
Nature reserve
Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Narborough Bog is an 8.5-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest east of Narborough in Leicestershire. It is owned and managed by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust. Narborough Bog is situated 1½ miles north of Cosby.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Littlethorpe and Narborough.
Littlethorpe
Village
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Littlethorpe is a small village approximately six miles south of Leicester, separated from the village of Narborough by the Leicester to Birmingham railway line, and the River Soar of which it is the true discharge.
Narborough
Village
Photo: Kev747, Public domain.
Narborough is a large village and civil parish in the Blaby district of Leicestershire, England, around six miles southwest of Leicester. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 8,498. Narborough is situated 1½ miles north of Cosby.
Sutton in the Elms
Hamlet
Sutton in the Elms is a settlement in the northwest of Broughton Astley, Leicestershire. Its name is sometimes abbreviated to Sutton Elms. Sutton is one of the three settlements mentioned in Domesday that now comprise Broughton Astley: namely Broctone, Sutone and Torp. Sutton in the Elms is situated 2 miles west of Cosby.
Cosby
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Cosby, Blaby, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.55105° or 52° 33′ 4″ northLongitude
-1.19268° or 1° 11′ 34″ westPopulation
3,730Elevation
246 feet (75 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CXYOpen location code
9C4WHR24+CWOpenStreetMap ID
node 20942940OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Cosby” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cosby (Leicestershire)”
- Basque: “Cosby”
- Cebuano: “Cosby (lungsod sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Leicestershire, lat 52,55, long -1,19)”
- Cebuano: “Cosby (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Cosby”
- Dutch: “Cosby, Leicestershire”
- French: “Cosby”
- Irish: “Cosby”
- Japanese: “コスビー”
- Ladin: “Cosby”
- Polish: “Cosby (Leicestershire)”
- Polish: “Cosby”
- Spanish: “Cosby”
- Swedish: “Cosby (ort i Storbritannien, England, Leicestershire, lat 52,55, long -1,19)”
- Swedish: “Cosby (parish)”
- Swedish: “Cosby, England”
- Turkish: “Cosby, Leicestershire”
- “Cosby”
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Notable Places Nearby
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