Cowley
Cowley is a small dispersed hamlet in North East Derbyshire, consisting of a few private houses and functioning farms strung out along Cowley Lane, which runs between the village of Holmesfield and the "Hill Top" neighbourhood of the town of Dronfield.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mike Fowkes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Derbyshire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Cowley, Derbyshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dronfield railway station and St Swithin’s Church, Holmesfield.
Dronfield railway station
Railway station
Photo: Adambro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dronfield railway station serves the town of Dronfield in Derbyshire, England, south of Sheffield, on the Midland Main Line between Chesterfield and Sheffield.
St Swithin’s Church, Holmesfield
Church
Photo: Andrew Hill, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Swithin's Church is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Holmesfield, Derbyshire.
St John the Baptist’s Church, Dronfield
Church
Photo: Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St John the Baptist’s Church, Dronfield is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Dronfield, Derbyshire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dronfield Woodhouse and Cartledge.
Dronfield Woodhouse
Suburb
Photo: Ted Thomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dronfield Woodhouse is a district of Dronfield, in the North East Derbyshire district, in the county of Derbyshire, England. The area has been inhabited since at least the 11th century and its main road, Carr Lane, features a 13th-century house, formerly Hall Farm.
Cartledge
Hamlet
Cartledge is a hamlet in Derbyshire, England. It is 10 kilometres southwest of Sheffield, and just south of the village of Holmesfield. Its name is derived from the Old Norse kartr, meaning rocky ground, and the Old English pre 7th-century loecc, meaning boggy stream.
Barlow Common
Village
Barlow Common is a village in Derbyshire, England, near Barlow and Chesterfield. It includes the hamlet of Crowhole, which contains several buildings surviving from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Cowley
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Barlow, North East Derbyshire, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.28928° or 53° 17′ 21″ northLongitude
-1.49593° or 1° 29′ 45″ westOpen location code
9C5W7GQ3+PJOpenStreetMap ID
node 339663299OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletWikidata ID
Q5179754
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Cowley” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Cowley, Derbyshire”
- Irish: “Cowley”
- Polish: “Cowley (Derbyshire)”
- Polish: “Cowley”
- Welsh: “Cowley, Swydd Derby”
- Welsh: “Cowley”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Holmesfield and Hill Top.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cowley Mission Church and Green Wood.
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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 “Cowley”. Photo: Mike Fowkes, CC BY-SA 2.0.