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ID: 7011359
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011359
Record Type:
administrative
Falmouth (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 50 08 54 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 50.1483
decimal degrees
Long: 005 04 34 W
degrees minutes
Long: -5.0761
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on peninsular site, between Falmouth Bay and Carrick Roads estuary; during English Civil War it fell to Parliamentarians in 1646; site of a naval base during World War I.
Names:
Falmouth
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Falemuth
(
H
,
V
)
Pennycomequick
(
H
,
V
)
Smithwick
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Cornwall
(county) (
P
)
....................
Falmouth
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was an early center
city (
C
)
port (
C
)
resort center (
C
)
fishing community (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Falemuth..........
[
VP
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 289
Falmouth..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
65
Pennycomequick..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 289
Smithwick..........
[
VP
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 289
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 289
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2595899
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
65
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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