Stowe
Stowe or Stow is a small village and civil parish in south Shropshire, England. The parish has a border with Wales and the Welsh town of Knighton is less than two miles to the southwest of the village; a very small part of the town actually lies within Stowe parish and Shropshire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 116 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Shropshire, England
- Also known as: “Stow” and “Stowe, Shropshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Knighton railway station and Church of St Michael.
Knighton railway station
Railway station
Photo: Maxburgoyne, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Knighton railway station serves the border market town of Knighton in Powys, Wales, although the station itself is located in Shropshire, England. It lies 32+1⁄2 miles south west of Shrewsbury on the Heart of Wales Line.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Knighton and Bucknell.
Knighton
Photo: Whatlep, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Knighton is a market town and community on the River Teme in Powys, Wales. It is located on the England–Wales border, and a small part of the town, including its railway station, lies over the border in the Shropshire parish of Stowe.
Bucknell
Village
Photo: Mr M Evison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bucknell is a village and civil parish in south Shropshire, England. The village lies on the River Redlake, within 660 yards of the River Teme and close to the border of Wales and Herefordshire. Bucknell is situated 2½ miles east of Stowe.
Stowe
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.3558° or 52° 21′ 21″ northLongitude
-3.0133° or 3° 0′ 48″ westPopulation
116Elevation
853 feet (260 metres)Open location code
9C4R9X4P+8MOpenStreetMap ID
node 29276056OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
7292290Wikidata ID
Q3877706
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Stowe” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Stowe (Shropshire)”
- Basque: “Stowe”
- Cebuano: “Stowe (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Stowe”
- Dutch: “Stowe”
- French: “Stowe (Shropshire)”
- French: “Stowe”
- Irish: “Stowe”
- Ladin: “Stowe (Shropshire)”
- Ladin: “Stowe”
- Polish: “Stowe”
- Swedish: “Stowe (distrikt)”
- Swedish: “Stowe, Shropshire”
- Turkish: “Stowe, Shropshire”
- Welsh: “Stowe, Swydd Amwythig”
- Welsh: “Stowe”
- “Stowe”
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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 “Stowe”. Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.