Cossington
Cossington is a village within the Soar Valley in Leicestershire, England. It is between Sileby, Rothley, Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake and Syston. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 598.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 541 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Leicestershire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Cossington, Leicestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sileby railway station and Syston railway station.
Sileby railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ewan Rutledge, CC BY 2.0.
Sileby railway station serves the industrial village of Sileby in Leicestershire, England. The station is located on the Midland Main Line, 106 miles 50 chains north of London St Pancras.
Syston railway station
Railway station
Photo: Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Syston railway station is a railway station serving the town of Syston in Leicestershire, England. The station is on the Midland Main Line from Leicester to Loughborough, 103 miles 63 chains down the line from London St Pancras. Syston railway station is situated 1½ miles southeast of Cossington.
St Mary & St John Church, Rothley
Church
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St Mary & St John is a Church of England parish church in the centre of Rothley, England. It has a congregation of mixed ages and backgrounds. The church aims "to reach out with the good news of Jesus Christ, to be built up as his disciples and to send people out to make God’s love known in the world".
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sileby and Broadnook.
Sileby
Village
Photo: Kev747, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sileby is a former industrial village and civil parish in the Soar Valley in the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England. It is located between Leicester and Loughborough.
Broadnook
Village
Photo: Aethonatic, CC0.
Broadnook is a village, which is situated 2 miles southwest of Cossington.
Birstall
Village
Photo: Wesley Trevor Johnston, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Birstall is a large village and civil parish within the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire, England. It is three miles north of Leicester city centre and is part of the wider Leicester Urban Area. Birstall is situated 3 miles south of Cossington.
Cossington
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Cossington, Charnwood District, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.71577° or 52° 42′ 57″ northLongitude
-1.10393° or 1° 6′ 14″ westPopulation
541Elevation
174 feet (53 metres)Open location code
9C4WPV8W+8COpenStreetMap ID
node 25310703OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
12195848Wikidata ID
Q5174711
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Cossington” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cossington”
- Dutch: “Cossington, Leicestershire”
- French: “Cossington”
- Irish: “Cossington”
- Ladin: “Cossington”
- Polish: “Cossington (Leicestershire)”
- Polish: “Cossington”
- Swedish: “Cossington (parish i Storbritannien, Leicestershire)”
- Swedish: “Cossington, Leicestershire”
- Turkish: “Cossington, Leicestershire”
- “Cossington”
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Highlights include Cossington Church of England Primary School and All Saints Church.
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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 “Cossington”. Photo: Kev747, Public domain.