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ID: 7010032
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010032
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Barnard Castle (inhabited place)  Barnard Castle (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 54 32 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 54.5333  decimal degrees
Long: 001 55 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -1.9167  decimal degrees

Note: Located on the north bank of the River Tees; grew around Norman castle built by Bernard de Balliol 1112-1132; site of uprising during reign of Henry VIII in 1569; noted for Bowes Museum (1892); Dickens was inspired to write the novel, Nicholas Nickelby, here in 1838.

Names:
Barnard Castle (preferred,C,V,English,U)

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 Durham (county)  ................  Durham (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Barnard Castle (inhabited place)  ....................  Barnard Castle (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  town grew up around Norman castle
town (C)
battlefield (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Barnard Castle..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.............................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
.............................  Blue Guide: England (1980) 669-670
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 904-905
.............................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.............................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 22
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
..................  Blue Guide: England (1980) 669-670
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 904-905
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2589286
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 22
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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