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ID: 4003529
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/4003529
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Edlingham (inhabited place)  Edlingham (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 55 22 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 55.3667  decimal degrees
Long: 001 49 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -1.8167  decimal degrees

Note: Village located 6 miles from Rothbury. The name means "home of Eadwulf" in Anglo-Saxon. Its recorded history dates to 737 when King Coelwulf gave Edlingham and three other royal Northumbrian villages to Cuthbert. Site of St. John the Baptist Church and Edlingham Castle.

Names:
Edlingham (preferred,C,V,English,U)

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 Northumberland (county)  ................  Northumberland (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Edlingham (inhabited place)  ....................  Edlingham (inhabited place) (P)

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

Sources and Contributors:
Edlingham..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
....................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
....................  Gazetteer of Great Britain (1987) 253
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................  Gazetteer of Great Britain (1987) 253
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2595396
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Gazetteer of British Place Names [online] (2004-)

 

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