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Great Cowden

Great Cowden is a hamlet in the civil parish of Mappleton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness.

The place

Great Cowden is a hamlet in the civil parish of Mappleton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately 3 miles (5 km) south of Hornsea and lies just east of the B1242 road on the North Sea coast.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Great Cowden

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints' Church is the parish church of Mappleton, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. The church was first recorded in 1115.

    1.2 km · church in Mappleton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Great Cowden

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 100 km · East Midlands (EMA), 140 km · Manchester (MAN), 153 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Great Cowden
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £9–12
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Great Cowden
    126 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · £15–20
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Great Cowden
    37 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £4.5–6
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Great Cowden

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Great Cowden. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    344 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    362 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    373 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    404 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    428 km

If you know how people move in Great Cowden – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Great Cowden

Great Cowden is 19 km from Kingston upon Hull, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Colden Parvalost village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK3.9 km