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ID: 1028972
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1028972
Record Type:
administrative
Crewe (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 53 06 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 53.1000
decimal degrees
Long: 002 26 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -2.4333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located 30 miles SE of Liverpool; important railway junction and locomotive manufacturing center; site of Crewe Hall, rebuilt in Jacobean style in 1886 after being destroyed by fire.
Names:
Crewe
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Creu
(
H
,
V
,
Anglo-Saxon-P
,
U
,
N
)
............
recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Cheshire
(county) (
P
)
....................
Crewe
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Creu..........
[
VP
]
...........
Domesday Book (1985)
52
Crewe..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Blue Guide: England (1980)
371-372
..............
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
50
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
299
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Blue Guide: England (1980)
371-372
..................
Domesday Book (1985)
52
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2593605
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
50
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
299
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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