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ID: 7018668
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7018668

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Beer (inhabited place)  Beer (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 50 42 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 50.7000  decimal degrees
Long: 003 06 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -3.1000  decimal degrees

Note: Near Seaton; stone quarries here have been in use since Roman times.

Names:
Beer (preferred,C,V,English,U)  ............ from Old English "Bearu," meaning "grove"; recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086
Beer (British English-P,U,N)
Beer (Anglo-Saxon-P,U,N)
Beare (H,V)  ............ documented in 14th cen.
Bera (H,V)
Bere (H,V)  ............ documented in 13th cen.

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United Kingdom (nation)  ........  United Kingdom (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of England (country)  ............  England (country) (P)
Hierarchy of Devon (county)  ................  Devon (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Beer (inhabited place)  ....................  Beer (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Beare..........  [VP]
..............  Oxford: English Place Names (1960) 35
Beer..........  [VP Preferred]
...........  Domesday Book (1985) 77
...........  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........  Oxford: English Place Names (1960) 35
...........  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 24
Bera..........  [VP]
...........  Oxford: English Place Names (1960) 35
Bere..........  [VP]
...........  Oxford: English Place Names (1960) 35
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Domesday Book (1985) 77
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2589573
..................  Oxford: English Place Names (1960) 35
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 24
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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