Foleshill lies to the north of Coventry, originally a separate village absorbed into the city during the 19th-century industrial expansion. Its development followed the main route out of town towards Nuneaton, leaving a patchwork of Victorian terraces, interwar housing and former factory sites alongside active industrial estates.
Today the ward is one of Coventry’s most ethnically diverse areas, with independent shops, restaurants and community centres reflecting substantial South Asian and other minority communities. The local economy mixes small retail, light industry and logistics, while regeneration efforts have focused on improving housing and public spaces and making the most of connections along Foleshill Road into the city centre and beyond.
Postcode districts covering Foleshill
Most populated places nearby
- Birmingham 16.1 miles
- Leicester 21 miles
- Coventry 1.2 miles
- Walsall 22.5 miles
- West Bromwich 21.5 miles
- Solihull 13.1 miles
- Sutton Coldfield 16.6 miles
- Royal Leamington Spa 9.5 miles
- Nuneaton 6.6 miles
- Redditch 20.3 miles
- Tamworth 15.4 miles
- Rugby 11.6 miles
Neighbouring places
- Radford Ward 0.9 miles
- Upper Stoke Ward 1.2 miles
- Coventry Built-up area 1.2 miles
- Holbrook Ward 1.3 miles
- St. Michael's Ward 1.3 miles
- Longford Ward 1.4 miles
- Sherbourne Ward 1.8 miles
- Lower Stoke Ward 1.9 miles
- Ash Green Built-up area 2 miles
- Henley Ward 2.2 miles
- Wyken Ward 2.2 miles
- Exhall Ward 2.3 miles
Example postcodes in Foleshill
CV6 9EW, CV6 5DJ, CV6 9SH, CV6 5ED, CV6 5QN, CV6 5AN, CV6 5BU, CV6 5LZ, CV6 6ET … See all
Transport links
- Birmingham International Airport 10.7 miles
- East Midlands Airport 28.8 miles
- Coventry Railway Station 2 miles
- Canley Railway Station 2.9 miles
Hotels near Foleshill Ad
- Hotel Indigo Coventry 4 1.9 miles
- Telegraph Hotel - Coventry 1.4 miles
- Ramada Hotel and Suites by Wyndham Coventry 4 1.8 miles
- Days Inn by Wyndham Corley NEC M6 3 3.6 miles
- Premier Inn Coventry City Centre 3 1.4 miles
- Village Hotel Coventry 3 2.7 miles
- DoubleTree by Hilton Coventry Building Society Arena 4 1.5 miles
- Holiday Inn Coventry M6 Jct 2 4 2.7 miles
- Affordable Suites 2.5 1.3 miles
- Coombe Abbey Hotel 4 3.9 miles
Schools in Foleshill
- Broad Heath Community Primary School Primary
- Eden Girls' School, Coventry Secondary
- Edgewick Community Primary School Primary
- Holbrook Primary School Primary
- John Gulson Primary School Primary
- Lote Tree Primary School Independent - primary
- St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary School Primary
- Stanton Bridge Primary School Primary
Local points of interest
- Coventry Transport Museum Museum 1.3 miles
- Belgrade Theatre Theatre 1.4 miles
- Ricoh Arena Stadium 1.4 miles
- Herbert Art Gallery and Museum Museum 1.5 miles
- University of Warwick University 4.2 miles
- Millisons Wood Forest 5 miles
- Stoneleigh Abbey Historic site 6.3 miles
- Blackdown Manor Estate 6.6 miles
- Liberty Way Stadium 6.8 miles
- Blackdown Hill Estate 7.8 miles
- Birmingham NEC Museum 9.5 miles
- National Exhibition Centre Stadium 9.5 miles