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ID: 1030274
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1030274
Record Type:
administrative
Paignton (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 50 26 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 50.4333
decimal degrees
Long: 003 34 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -3.5667
decimal degrees
Note:
A Bronze Age and then Saxon settlement; the church is on a Bronze Age site and has Saxon foundations; Coverdale Tower was part of a palace of the Bishops of Exeter; the town was developed as a resort in the 19th cen.
Names:
Paignton
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Peintona
(
H
,
V
)
............
recorded in 1086
Peintone
(
H
,
V
)
............
recorded in 1086
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Devon
(county) (
P
)
....................
Torbay
(unitary authority) (
P
)
........................
Paignton
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
Bronze Age (
H
)
Saxon (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Paignton..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Domesday Book (1985)
84
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
148
Peintona..........
[
VP
]
.................
Domesday Book (1985)
84
Peintone..........
[
VP
]
.................
Domesday Book (1985)
84
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Domesday Book (1985)
84
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2604959
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
148
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
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© 2004 J. Paul Getty Trust
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