Fairford
Fairford is in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. Fairford town originated as a river-crossing settlement on the River Coln, the ancient market town is dominated by the beautifully proportioned 'wool' church of St Mary.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 3,240 residents
- Description: town in Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Fairford, Gloucestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Mary’s Church and RAF Fairford.
St Mary’s Church
Church
Photo: Mymuk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Mary's Church is a Church of England church in Fairford, Gloucestershire, England. It is notable for its complete set of 28 medieval stained-glass windows, one of the best-preserved in England.
RAF Fairford
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Royal Air Force Fairford or more simply RAF Fairford is a Royal Air Force station in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. While being an RAF station, Fairford hosts United States Air Force personnel.
Farmor’s School
School
Farmor's School is a secondary school with academy status in Fairford, Gloucestershire. Including the Sixth Form, the school currently has about 1,000 students on roll.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Meysey Hampton and Kempsford.
Meysey Hampton
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Meysey Hampton is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district, in Gloucestershire, England, approximately 30 miles to the south-east of Gloucester. Meysey Hampton is situated 2½ miles west of Fairford.
Kempsford
Village
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kempsford is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, about 2.5 miles south of Fairford. RAF Fairford is immediately north of the village. Kempsford is situated 2½ miles south of Fairford.
Fairford
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Cotswold District, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.7079° or 51° 42′ 29″ northLongitude
-1.7773° or 1° 46′ 38″ westPopulation
3,240Elevation
302 feet (92 metres)IATA airport code
FFDUnited Nations Location Code
GB FFOOpen location code
9C3WP65F+53OpenStreetMap ID
node 30764812OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2649741Wikidata ID
Q662878
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Fairford” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Fairford”
- Basque: “Fairford”
- Bavarian: “Fairford”
- Catalan: “Fairford”
- Cebuano: “Fairford”
- Chinese: “費爾福德”
- Chinese: “费尔福德”
- Dutch: “Fairford”
- French: “Fairford”
- German: “Fairford”
- Hebrew: “פיירפורד”
- Irish: “Fairford”
- Italian: “Fairford”
- Japanese: “Fairford”
- Japanese: “フェアフォード”
- Ladin: “Fairford”
- Latin: “Fairford”
- Latin: “Vadum Pulchrum”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fairford”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fairford”
- Norwegian: “Fairford”
- Persian: “فایرفورد”
- Polish: “Fairford”
- Portuguese: “Fairford”
- Romanian: “Fairford”
- Russian: “Фэйрфорд”
- Russian: “Фэрфорд”
- Slovenian: “Fairford”
- South Azerbaijani: “فایرفورد”
- Spanish: “Fairford”
- Swedish: “Fairford”
- Volapük: “Fairford”
- Welsh: “Fairford”
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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 “Fairford”. Photo: Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0.