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ID: 7026077
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7026077
Record Type:
administrative
Heaton (neighborhood)
Coordinates:
Lat: 54 59 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 54.9833
decimal degrees
Long: 001 35 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -1.5833
decimal degrees
Note:
Documented from 12th century. The name means "high town," referring to the location on hills above the Ouseburn tributary of the River Tyne.
Names:
Heaton
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preferred
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C
,
V
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English
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U
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United Kingdom
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England
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Tyne and Wear
(county) (
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Newcastle upon Tyne
(urban district) (
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Newcastle upon Tyne
(inhabited place) (
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Heaton
(neighborhood) (
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Place Types:
neighborhood (
preferred
,
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Heaton..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Columbia Gazetteer (1998)
II, 2171
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Columbia Gazetteer (1998)
II, 2171
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2598408
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Oxford: English Place Names (1960)
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