RAF Cottesmore
Royal Air Force Cottesmore or more simply RAF Cottesmore is a former Royal Air Force station in Rutland, England, situated between Cottesmore and Market Overton.- Type: Military installation
- Description: Royal Air Force station
- Also known as: “CT” and “Kendrew Barracks”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St Nicholas’ Church, Thistleton and Rutland Railway Museum.
St Nicholas’ Church, Thistleton
Church
Photo: Tim Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Nicholas' Church in Thistleton, Rutland, England, is a former Church of England parish church, now a chapel of ease. It is a Grade II* listed building. St Nicholas’ Church, Thistleton is situated 1¼ miles north of RAF Cottesmore.
Rutland Railway Museum
Museum
Rutland Railway Museum, now trading as Rocks by Rail: The Living Ironstone Museum, is a heritage railway on part of a former Midland Railway mineral branch line. It is situated north east of Oakham, in Rutland, England. Rutland Railway Museum is situated 2 miles southwest of RAF Cottesmore.
St Nicholas’ Church, Stretton
Church
Photo: Rpriv2000, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Nicholas' Church is a church in Stretton, Rutland. It is a Grade II* listed building. St Nicholas’ Church, Stretton is situated 2½ miles east of RAF Cottesmore.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thistleton and Greetham.
Thistleton
Village
Photo: Rpriv2000, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Thistleton is the most northerly village in the county of Rutland, and a civil parish, in the East Midlands of England. The population of the village at the 2001 census was 99.
Greetham
Village
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Greetham is a village and civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. The village's name means 'homestead/village which is gravelly' or 'hemmed-in land which is gravelly'.
Market Overton
Village
Photo: Kate Jewell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Market Overton is a village on the northern edge of the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. The population of the civil parish was 494 at the 2001 census, increasing to 584 at the 2011 census.
RAF Cottesmore
- Categories: Royal Air Force station and air base
- Location: Barrow, Rutland, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.73296° or 52° 43′ 59″ northLongitude
-0.65336° or 0° 39′ 12″ westOpen location code
9C4XP8MW+5MOpenStreetMap ID
way 178279337OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=militaryWikidata ID
Q7275257
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Tajik—“RAF Cottesmore” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “RAF Cottesmore”
- Chinese: “科特斯莫爾皇家空軍基地”
- Dutch: “RAF Cottesmore”
- French: “base aérienne militaire du Royaume-Uni”
- French: “RAF Cottesmore”
- Italian: “RAF Cottesmore”
- Japanese: “コッテスモア空軍基地”
- Japanese: “コテスモア空軍基地”
- Japanese: “王立空軍コテスモア基地”
- Malay: “Pangkalan Udara Cottesmore”
- Malay: “Pengkalan Udara Cottesmore”
- Persian: “فرودگاه نیروی هوایی سلطنتی کاتسمور”
- Spanish: “RAF Cottesmore”
- Swedish: “RAF Cottesmore”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи нерӯе ҳаво салтанате котсмур”
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