Research Home
Tools
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Full Record Display
Vernacular Display
|
English Display
Click the
icon to view the hierarchy.
Semantic View
(
JSON
,
JSONLD
,
RDF
,
N3/Turtle
,
N-Triples
)
ID: 7011583
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011583
Record Type:
administrative
Boxley (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 17 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.2833
decimal degrees
Long: 000 33 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 0.5500
decimal degrees
Note:
At the foot of the Downs; Boxley Abbey, founded 1146, was famous for its Rood of Grace on which Christ's figure miraculously moved; it was exposed as a mechanical fraud in 1539; the abbey's 13th-cen. tithe barn still stands.
Names:
Boxley
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Boseleu
(
H
,
V
)
............
recorded in 1086
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Kent
(county) (
P
)
....................
Boxley
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
village (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Boseleu..........
[
VP
]
.................
Domesday Book (1985)
146
Boxley..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
.................
Domesday Book (1985)
146
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
32
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................
Domesday Book (1985)
146
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2590554
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
32
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
The J. Paul Getty Trust
© 2004 J. Paul Getty Trust
Terms of Use
/
Privacy Policy
/
Contact Us
icon to view the hierarchy.
