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ID: 1028639
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1028639
Record Type:
administrative
Brixham (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 50 23 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 50.3833
decimal degrees
Long: 003 30 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -3.5000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on S side of Tor Bay in English Channel; once a Roman settlement; an Iron Age fort is at Berry Head; noted as important fishing center & site where the trawling technique was developed.
Names:
Brixham
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Briseham
(
H
,
V
)
............
recorded in 1086
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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Europe
(continent) (
P
)
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United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
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England
(country) (
P
)
................
Devon
(county) (
P
)
....................
Torbay
(unitary authority) (
P
)
........................
Brixham
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
primarily constructed during Victorian times
town (
C
)
fishing community (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Briseham..........
[
VP
]
.................
Domesday Book (1985)
78
Brixham..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Domesday Book (1985)
78
.................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
accessed 04/22/99
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
34
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Domesday Book (1985)
78
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
accessed 04/22/99
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2590935
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
34
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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