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ID: 7026079
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7026079
Record Type:
administrative
Walker (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 54 58 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 54.9667
decimal degrees
Long: 001 32 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -1.5333
decimal degrees
Note:
Formerly the site of a large shipbuilding industry.
Names:
Walker
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Walker-on-Tyne
(
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Wall-kjerr
(
H
,
V
)
............
meaning "marshy woodland by the wall"
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Tyne and Wear
(county) (
P
)
....................
Newcastle upon Tyne
(urban district) (
P
)
........................
Walker
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
neighborhood (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Walker..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Gazetteer (1998)
2:2171
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Walker-on-Tyne..........
[
VP
]
.............................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Wall-kjerr..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Oxford: English Place Names (1960)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Columbia Gazetteer (1998)
II, 2171
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2610783
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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