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ID: 1028819
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1028819
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Chesterfield (inhabited place)  Chesterfield (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 53 15 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 53.2500  decimal degrees
Long: 001 25 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -1.4167  decimal degrees

Note: Located at junction of rivers Rother and Hipper; occupied since Roman times; expanded with construction of canal (1777), Midland Railway (1841) and iron and coal works at nearby Staveley; 14th-century St. Mary's church has unique twisted spire of warped timber; the first town to be lighted by gas lamps.

Names:
Chesterfield (preferred,C,V,English,U)
Cestrefeld (H,V,Anglo-Saxon-P,U,N)  ............ recorded in the Domesday Book 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 Derbyshire (county)  ................  Derbyshire (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Chesterfield (inhabited place)  ....................  Chesterfield (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was Roman center
town (C)
market center (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Cestrefeld..........  [VP]
.......................  Domesday Book (1985) 68
Chesterfield..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 180
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 44
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Domesday Book (1985) 68
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 180
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2592380
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 44
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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