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ID: 7011240
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011240
Record Type:
administrative
Taunton (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 01 16 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.0211
decimal degrees
Long: 003 06 17 W
degrees minutes
Long: -3.1047
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in Vale of Taunton; town grew around 8th-cen. Saxon castle & remained as seat of Bishops of Wincester for more than 1000 years; second castle built in 12th cen. seized by Royalists during 17th-cen. English Civil War.
Names:
Taunton
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Taunton Deane
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
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United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Somerset
(county) (
P
)
....................
Taunton
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded as a stronghold by Anglo-Saxon king Ine ca. 710
city (
C
)
............
chartered in 904
county seat (
C
)
episcopal see (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Taunton..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Blue Guide: England (1980)
201
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
Xi,580
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
195
Taunton Deane..........
[
VP
]
..........................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 580
Subject:
.....
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Blue Guide: England (1980)
201
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 580; Xi,580
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2609476
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
195
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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