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ID: 7008505
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008505
Record Type:
administrative
Llantwit Major (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 24 20 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.4056
decimal degrees
Long: 003 28 58 W
degrees minutes
Long: -3.4828
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in Vale of Glamorgan; noted for prehistoric & Roman remains & a 12th/15th-cen. parish church; mostly residential community for commuters living in Barry & Brigend.
Names:
Llantwit Major
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Llantwit-Major
(
C
,
V
)
Llanilltud Fawr
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
Wales
(country) (
P
)
................
Vale of Glamorgan
(unitary authority) (
P
)
....................
Llantwit Major
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
site of a prehistoric settlement, later was a Roman center
town (
C
)
market center (
C
)
resort center (
C
)
monastic center (
H
)
............
site of a famous monastic college, founded ca. AD 500 by the Celtic St. IIlud, until closed during the Dissolution (1536-39)
Sources and Contributors:
Llanilltud Fawr..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 422
Llantwit Major..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 422
.............................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.............................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
114
Llantwit-Major..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 526
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 526
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 422
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2601699
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
114
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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