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ID: 1031115
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1031115
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Whitwick (inhabited place)  Whitwick (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 52 44 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 52.7333  decimal degrees
Long: 001 21 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -1.3500  decimal degrees

Note: Granted a weekly market in 13th cen.; nearby is Mount St. Bernard Abbey, the first Cistercian Abbey to be built after the Reformation; mining is a modern industry here.

Names:
Whitwick (preferred,C,V,English,U)
Witewic (H,V)  ............ recorded in 1086

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 Leicestershire (county)  ................  Leicestershire (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Whitwick (inhabited place)  ....................  Whitwick (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
village (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Whitwick..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Domesday Book (1985) 163
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-191
Witewic..........  [VP]
.................  Domesday Book (1985) 163
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Domesday Book (1985) 163
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2611672
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-191
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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