Fowlmere
Fowlmere is one of the southernmost villages in Cambridgeshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 1,206. It is very close to the Imperial War Museum Duxford, and 9 miles southwest of the city of Cambridge.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Andy Peacock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: NHSavage, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 1,200 residents
- Description: village in Cambridgeshire, England
- Also known as: “Foulmere” and “Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire”
Photo: Steve F, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fowlmere RSPB reserve and Fowlmere War Memorial.
Fowlmere RSPB reserve
Nature reserve
Photo: Sebastian Ballard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fowlmere is a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds nature reserve between Fowlmere and Melbourn in Cambridgeshire. It is designated a 39.9-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest called Fowlmere Watercress Beds.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thriplow and Foxton.
Thriplow
Village
Photo: Keith Edkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thriplow is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, 8 miles south of Cambridge. The village also gives its name to a former Cambridgeshire hundred.
Foxton
Village
Melbourn
Village
Photo: mym, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Melbourn is a large, clustered village in the far south-west of Cambridgeshire, England. Its traditional high street is bypassed by the A10, intersecting the settlement's other main axis exactly 3 miles northwest of the traditional focal point of Royston, Hertfordshire, the nearest larger settlement. Melbourn is situated 2½ miles west of Fowlmere.
Fowlmere
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.0896° or 52° 5′ 23″ northLongitude
0.0756° or 0° 4′ 32″ eastPopulation
1,200Elevation
89 feet (27 metres)Open location code
9F4233QG+V7OpenStreetMap ID
node 25711359OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2649122Wikidata ID
Q1869427
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Fowlmere” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فولمر”
- Basque: “Fowlmere”
- Cebuano: “Fowlmere”
- Chinese: “Fowlmere”
- Dutch: “Fowlmere”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فولمر”
- French: “Fowlmere”
- Irish: “Fowlmere”
- Italian: “Fowlmere”
- Japanese: “フォールメア”
- Ladin: “Fowlmere”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fowlmere”
- Persian: “فالمیر”
- Polish: “Fowlmere”
- Spanish: “Fowlmere”
- Swedish: “Fowlmere”
- Turkish: “Fowlmere”
- Welsh: “Fowlmere”
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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 “Fowlmere”. Photo: NHSavage, CC BY-SA 3.0.