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Cowes

Cowes is a town on the in southern . It is a lovely beach and a wonderful place to visit if you are on holiday to the Isle of Wight.
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  • Type: Town with 9,660 residents
  • Description: town on the Isle of Wight, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Cowes, Isle of Wight”
  • Historically known as: “West Cowes”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Osborne House and Cowes Castle.

Park
Photo: Humac45, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a former royal residence in , , . The house was built between 1845 and 1851 for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as a summer home and rural retreat.

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, also known as West , is a Device Fort in Cowes on the . Originally built by Henry VIII in 1539 to protect England against the threat of invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, it comprised a circular bastion, flanking wings and a keep, and in 1547 it housed 17 pieces of artillery.

Library
Photo: Arriva436, CC BY 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wootton Bridge and East Cowes.

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lies on the northeast coast of the , and is situated almost midway between the island’s historical capital of and the Victorian gateway of .

Town
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is a town and civil parish in the north of the , on the east bank of the , next to its west bank neighbour Cowes. It has a population of 8,428 according to the 2021 Census.

Village
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is a village and civil parish on the , two miles to the west of Cowes. sits on the edge of , enjoyed by the Sailing Club.

Cowes

Latitude
50.7633° or 50° 45′ 48″ north
Longitude
-1.2985° or 1° 17′ 55″ west
Population
9,660
United Nations Location Code
GB COW
Open location code
9C2WQP72+8H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11398584
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2652204
Wiki­data ID
Q587996
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Cowes” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Քաուս”
  • Asturian: “Cowes”
  • Basque: “Cowes”
  • Belarusian: “Коўз”
  • Bengali: “কওয়েস”
  • Bulgarian: “Каус”
  • Catalan: “Cowes”
  • Cebuano: “Cowes (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Cowes”
  • Chinese: “Cowes”
  • Chinese: “考乌斯”
  • Chinese: “考斯”
  • Chinese: “考烏斯”
  • Czech: “Cowes”
  • Dutch: “Cowes, Isle of Wight”
  • Dutch: “Cowes”
  • Dutch: “West Cowes”
  • Finnish: “Cowes”
  • French: “Cowes”
  • Galician: “Cowes”
  • German: “Cowes”
  • Gujarati: “કોવેસ”
  • Hebrew: “קאוז”
  • Hungarian: “Cowes”
  • Irish: “Cowes, Cowes Thoir”
  • Irish: “Cowes”
  • Italian: “Cowes”
  • Japanese: “カウズ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೌವ್ಸ್”
  • Korean: “카우스”
  • Ladin: “Cowes”
  • Latin: “Cowes”
  • Latvian: “Kouza”
  • Lithuanian: “Kousas”
  • Malagasy: “Cowes”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cowes”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cowes”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cowes”
  • Persian: “کووز”
  • Polish: “Cowes”
  • Portuguese: “Cowes”
  • Romanian: “Cowes”
  • Russian: “Каус”
  • Russian: “Коуз”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cowes”
  • Slovenian: “Cowes”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کووز”
  • Spanish: “Cowes”
  • Swedish: “Cowes”
  • Tamil: “கோவ்ஸ்”
  • Telugu: “కౌస్”
  • Turkish: “Cowes”
  • Ukrainian: “Коуз”
  • Urdu: “کوویس”
  • Volapük: “Cowes”
  • Welsh: “Cowes”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Cowes”. Photo: Editor5807, CC BY 3.0.