Cossington Boy
Cossington is the name of: ;In Australia * ''Cossington'' (Turramurra), a heritage-listed house in the Sydney suburb of Turramurra ;In England * Cossington, Kent, a small settlement in Kent, home of a possible megalithic site * Cossington, Leicestershire, a village in the Soar Valley in Leicestershire * Cossington, Somerset Cossington is a village and civil parish close to Woolavington and north of Bridgwater, in the Sedgemoor district in Somerset, England. The village lies on the north side of the Polden Hills. History It was probably part of the ancient Polden ...

Cossington (Turramurra)
''Cossington'' is a heritage-listed residence located at 43 Ku-Ring-Gai Avenue, in the Sydney suburb of Turramurra in the Ku-ring-gai Council local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Nixon and Allen and built in 1899. It is also known as ''Sylvan Fells'' and ''Sylvan Falls''. The property is privately owned. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 18 August 2006. History Turramurra Turramurra is , above Pymble and from the Sydney central business district. It has an average of of rain per annum, one of the highest for the Sydney metro area. It has a population of close to 11,000 and an area of . It is bordered on one end by the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and on the other by Lane Cove National Park. Originally a timbergetting area settlement begun in 1822 until after 1850 when the orchardists came to occupy extensive landholdings producing a variety of citrus and other fruits including persimmons, custard apples ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

Cossington, Kent
Cossington is a small farm settlement on Blue Bell Hill north of Maidstone in the English county of Kent. It is the site of a spring and also the site of a now lost group of sarsen stones thought to possibly be the remains of a Neolithic chambered long barrow and one of the Medway megaliths. The area is very close to the nearby sites of Kit's Coty House and the Countless Stones. Little is known of the stones at Cossington; the lack of available knowledge and antiquarian interest at the site may mean that they may not be megalithic remains but natural periglacial stones. The upstanding stones may have been destroyed in the nineteenth century to provide building stone for the military garrisons at Sheerness and Chatham further downstream in the Medway Medway is a unitary authority district and conurbation in Kent, South East England. It had a population of 278,016 in 2019. The unitary authority was formed in 1998 when Rochester-upon-Medway amalgamated with the Borough of G ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

Cossington, Leicestershire
Cossington is a village within the Soar Valley in Leicestershire, England. It lies between Sileby, Rothley, Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake and Syston. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 598. The village's name means 'farm/settlement of Cusa/Cosa'. Although there is no railway service to Cossington, the Ivanhoe Line runs along the Midland Main Line between Leicester and Loughborough, passing close to the village. An hourly service is provided in both directions as part of East Midlands Railway Local service from Lincoln to Leicester via Nottingham. Many years ago there was a ' Cossington Gate railway station' which has long since gone, the only evidence remaining on old maps, The nearest stations now being at Syston and Sileby. Cossington was once home to Lady Isobel Barnett, a radio and television personality from the mid 20th century, where she committed suicide amidst shoplifting charges. A short new road, Barnett Close, has been named in her memory. The v ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]