Colby
Colby is a small village in the south of the Isle of Man in the parish of Arbory. It lies on the A7 road between the towns of Castletown and Port Erin and close to the similarly sized village of Ballabeg.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Andy Stephenson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 289 residents
- Description: village on the Isle of Man
- Also known as: “Colby, Isle of Man”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Colby railway station and Kirk Arbory.
Colby railway station
Railway station
Photo: Dankarran, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Colby railway station is a small railway station on the southern edge of the village of Colby in the south of the Isle of Man served by the Isle of Man Railway; it forms part of the sole remaining section of the network which once covered over 46 miles island-wide.
The Level railway station
Railway stop
Photo: Dankarran, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Level is a seasonally operated request stop on the Isle of Man Railway located in the sheading of Rushen on the Isle of Man. This is the sole remaining section of the railway which once spanned over 46 miles with lines to Peel in the west, Ramsey in the north and the mining village of Foxdale in the centre of the island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballakilpheric and Ballabeg.
Ballakilpheric
Hamlet
Photo: kevin rothwell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ballakilpheric is a small village in the parish of Rushen in the southwest of the Isle of Man, 1 kilometre northwest of the larger village of Colby, and 8 kilometres by road northeast of Port Erin.
Ballabeg
Hamlet
Photo: Andy Stephenson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ballabeg is a village on the Isle of Man. It is in the parish of Arbory in the sheading of Rushen, in the south of the island near Castletown. There are several small villages and hamlets with the name, although Ballabeg in Arbory is the most well-known and populous.
Ronague
Hamlet
Ronague is a tiny hamlet in the south of the Isle of Man, in the parish of Arbory. It consists of an old chapel, several houses and some farms. It lies to the north of the villages of Ballabeg and Colby, west of the hamlet of Grenaby and south of the hill South Barrule. Ronague is situated 2½ km northeast of Colby.
Colby
- Categories: residential area and locality
- Location: Arbory, Isle of Man, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.0985° or 54° 5′ 55″ northLongitude
-4.70262° or 4° 42′ 9″ westPopulation
289Elevation
32 metres (105 feet)Open location code
9C6Q37XW+9XOpenStreetMap ID
way 60499872OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Colby” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Colby (Man Uhartea)”
- Basque: “Colby”
- Dutch: “Colby, Isle of Man”
- Dutch: “Colby”
- French: “Colby”
- Irish: “Colby, Oileán Mhanann”
- Irish: “Colby”
- Manx: “Colbee”
- Manx: “Colby”
- Urdu: “کولبی، آئل آف مین”
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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 “Colby”. Photo: Andy Stephenson, CC BY-SA 2.0.