Cosford
Cosford is a village in Shropshire, England. It is located on the A41 road, which is itself just south of junction 3 on the M54 motorway. The village is very small and is mostly made up of dwellings that house Royal Air Force personnel who work at the adjacent RAF Cosford.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Shropshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Cosford, Shropshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cosford railway station and RAF Cosford.
Cosford railway station
Railway station
Photo: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cosford railway station is a railway station which serves the village of Cosford in Shropshire, England. It also serves RAF Cosford which is also home to a branch of the Royal Air Force Museum.
RAF Cosford
Aerodrome
Photo: John Chorley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Royal Air Force Cosford or RAF Cosford is a Royal Air Force station near the village of Cosford, Shropshire, England just to the northwest of Wolverhampton and next to Albrighton.
Royal Air Force Museum Midlands
Museum
Photo: Voice of Clam, Public domain.
The Royal Air Force Museum Midlands, located at RAF Cosford in Shropshire, is a free museum dedicated to the history of aviation and the Royal Air Force in particular.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tong and Albrighton.
Tong
Village
Photo: Voice of Clam, Public domain.
Tong is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, also bordering Staffordshire in England. It is located between the towns of Shifnal, Newport and Brewood.
Albrighton
Village
Photo: Richard Law, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Albrighton is a large village and civil parish in Shropshire, England, 8 miles northwest of Wolverhampton and 11 miles northeast of Bridgnorth. The village has a railway station on the Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton Line, and is near to RAF Cosford and the M54 motorway.
Boningale
Hamlet
Photo: Richard Law, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boningale is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. The village lies just south of Albrighton, and just west of the county border with Staffordshire. Boningale is situated 2 miles south of Cosford.
Cosford
- Category: locality
- Location: Donington, Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.64845° or 52° 38′ 54″ northLongitude
-2.29539° or 2° 17′ 43″ westElevation
282 feet (86 metres)Open location code
9C4VJPX3+9ROpenStreetMap ID
node 213966267OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“Cosford” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Cosford”
- Chinese: “史樂郡高斯福村”
- Dutch: “Cosford”
- French: “Cosford”
- German: “Cosford (Shropshire)”
- German: “Cosford”
- Irish: “Cosford”
- Japanese: “コスフォード”
- Polish: “Cosford”
- Welsh: “Cosford, Swydd Amwythig”
- Welsh: “Cosford”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cosford Post Office and Swallow Hayes.
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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 “Cosford”. Photo: Victor Chetta, CC BY 2.0.