Cox Town
Cox Town, Bengaluru is a neighborhood of the Bangalore Cantonment, located in the central part of the city and named after the last Collector and District Magistrate of the Bangalore Civil and Military Station, Alexander Ranken Cox, Indian Civil Services.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Quarter
- Description: suburb in BBMP, Karnataka, India
- Also known as: “Cox Town, Bangalore”, “Cox Town, Bengaluru”, “Jeevanahalli”, and “Sarvagnanagar”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bengaluru East railway station and St. Francis Xavier’s Cathedral.
Bengaluru East railway station
Railway station
Bengaluru East railway station, also known as Bangalore East railway station, is an old British-era railway station surrounded by Pottery Road, Kumaraswamy Naidu Road, Murgesha Mudaliar Road and Kenchappa Road.
St. Francis Xavier’s Cathedral
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St. Francis Xavier's Cathedral is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bangalore in India. Initially, Bangalore was the seat of the diocese of Mysore from 1886 to 1940 and during this time, St.
Banaswadi railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sam2905, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Banaswadi railway station is an Indian Railways train station located in Banaswadi, Bangalore, in the Indian state of Karnataka, which is about 12 km away from the Bangalore City railway station and serves the Banaswadi and Baiyyappanahalli areas.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cooke Town and Fraser Town, Bengaluru.
Cooke Town
Quarter
Photo: Aprabhala, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cooke Town is a neighbourhood in Bangalore Cantonment, in Bangalore Central, India. Built as a suburb before Indian Independence, it is one of Bangalore's oldest neighbourhoods, established when the Bangalore Civil and Military Station was governed by the Madras Government.
Fraser Town, Bengaluru
Suburb
Fraser Town, Bengaluru, is an elite locality of Bangalore Cantonment, located in the Central part of the City spread over 4 km2. It was established in 1906 and is named after Stuart Mitford Fraser, who was the tutor and guardian of Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV, Maharaja of Mysore.
Murphy Town
Neighborhood
Murphy Town or Knoxpete, is a suburb located near Bangalore Cantonment, India. It is one of the oldest planned suburbs of the Cantonment, and was earlier known as Knoxpete, and was later changed to Hoysala Nagar.
Cox Town
- Categories: human-geographic territorial entity and locality
- Location: Bangalore (North), Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
12.99548° or 12° 59′ 44″ northLongitude
77.62393° or 77° 37′ 26″ eastElevation
910 metres (2,986 feet)Open location code
7J4VXJWF+5HOpenStreetMap ID
node 430051518OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarter
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In Other Languages
From Kannada to Tamil—“Cox Town” goes by many names.
- Kannada: “ಕಾಕ್ಸ್ ಟೌನ್”
- Tamil: “காக்சு நகரம்”
- Tamil: “காக்ஸ் டவுன்”
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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 “Cox Town”. Photo: Pri2pais, CC BY-SA 3.0.