South East England
Hampshire
Rushmoor District

Farnborough

Farnborough is a town in the northeastern corner of the county of , adjacent to the borders with and . Once an isolated hamlet, Farnborough grew into a medium-sized town over the course of the 20th century.
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  • Type: Town with 59,900 residents
  • Description: town in Hampshire, England
  • Also known as: “Farnborough, Hampshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Farnborough Airport and St Michael’s Abbey, Farnborough.

Aerodrome
Photo: MilborneOne, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an operational business/executive general aviation airport in Farnborough, Rushmoor, , . The 310-hectare airport covers about 8% of Rushmoor's land area.

Monastery
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Saint Michael's Abbey is a Benedictine abbey in Farnborough, Hampshire, England, which belongs to the English Province of the Subiaco Cassinese Congregation.

Railway station
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Farnborough North is a railway station that serves the town of Farnborough, in , England. It is managed by Great Western Railway, which operates services on the North Downs Line between , , and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Frimley and Frimley Green.

Town
Photo: Euchiasmus, Public domain.
is a town in the borough of , in , England. It lies approximately 30 mi south-west of . The town is of Saxon origin, although it is not listed in Domesday Book of 1086.

Village
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Camberley is a town in . Camberley is an up-and-coming and expanding town, which is known for being close to the Royal Military Academy at .

Neighborhood
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is an ancient village turned suburb, forming the western part of Farnborough, in the Rushmoor district, in the county of , England. The appropriate ward is called and Southwood.

Farnborough

Latitude
51.2919° or 51° 17′ 31″ north
Longitude
-0.754° or 0° 45′ 14″ west
Population
59,900
Elevation
226 feet (69 metres)
IATA airport code
FAB
United Nations Location Code
GB FBO
Open location code
9C3X76RW+PC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26424302
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2649672
Wiki­data ID
Q547071
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Farnborough” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فارنبرة”
  • Arabic: “فارنبوروغ”
  • Armenian: “Ֆարնբորո”
  • Asturian: “Farnborough”
  • Azerbaijani: “Farnboro (Hampşir)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Farnboro”
  • Basque: “Farnborough”
  • Catalan: “Farnborough”
  • Cebuano: “Farnborough”
  • Chinese: “法恩伯勒”
  • Czech: “Farnborough”
  • Dutch: “Farnborough”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فارنبره”
  • Esperanto: “Farnborough”
  • Finnish: “Farnborough”
  • French: “Farnborough”
  • German: “Farnborough”
  • Greek: “Φάρνμπορο”
  • Hebrew: “פארנבורו”
  • Indonesian: “Farnborough, Hampshire”
  • Indonesian: “Farnborough”
  • Irish: “Farnborough, Hampshire”
  • Irish: “Farnborough”
  • Italian: “Farnborough”
  • Japanese: “ファーンバラ”
  • Japanese: “ファーンボロ”
  • Japanese: “ファーンボロー”
  • Japanese: “ファンボロー”
  • Ladin: “Farnborough”
  • Latin: “Farnborough”
  • Latvian: “Fārnboro”
  • Lithuanian: “Farnboras”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Farnborough”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Farnborough i Hampshire”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Farnborough”
  • Norwegian: “Farnborough”
  • Persian: “فارن‌بورو، همپشایر”
  • Persian: “فارن‌بورو، همپشر”
  • Polish: “Farnborough”
  • Portuguese: “Farnborough”
  • Romanian: “Farnborough”
  • Russian: “Фарнборо”
  • Serbian: “Фарнборо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Farnborough, Hampshire”
  • Slovak: “Farnborough”
  • Slovenian: “Farnborough”
  • Spanish: “Farnborough”
  • Swedish: “Farnborough”
  • Tatar: “Фарнборо”
  • Turkish: “Farnborough, Hampshire”
  • Ukrainian: “Фарнборо”
  • Urdu: “فارنبورو، ہیمپشائر”
  • Volapük: “Farnborough”
  • Welsh: “Farnborough, Hampshire”
  • Welsh: “Farnborough”
  • “Farnborough”

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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 “Farnborough”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.