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ID: 1028295
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1028295
Record Type:
administrative
Alston (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 54 48 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 54.8000
decimal degrees
Long: 002 26 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -2.4333
decimal degrees
Names:
Alston
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Aldenby
(
H
,
V
)
............
recorded between 1164-1171 AD, probably from Old Norse & Old English, meaning "Aldhun's farmstead"
Aldeneston
(
H
,
V
)
............
used by ca. 1210
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Cumbria
(county) (
P
)
....................
Alston
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
market center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Aldenby..........
[
VP
]
.................
Dictionary of British Place Names (1994)
13
Aldeneston..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Dictionary of British Place Names (1994)
13
Alston..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
11
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Dictionary of British Place Names (1994)
13
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2588162
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
11
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