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ID: 7010214
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010214
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Barrow-in-Furness (inhabited place)  Barrow-in-Furness (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 54 07 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 54.1167  decimal degrees
Long: 003 14 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -3.2333  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Furness peninsula; founded on iron and steel industry and planned in the mid-19th century by locomotive engineer, James Ramsden; first British Polaris submarine was built here in 1964; industries include paper, engineering, chemicals, and offshore gas.

Names:
Barrow-in-Furness (preferred,C,V)
Barrow in Furness (NA,V,English,U)
Barrow (NA,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 Cumbria (county)  ................  Cumbria (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Barrow-in-Furness (inhabited place)  ....................  Barrow-in-Furness (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)
industrial center (C)
port (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Barrow..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Barrow-in-Furness..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
................................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
................................  Blue Guide (1923-)
................................  Blue Guide: England (1980) 576
................................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 61
................................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 22
Barrow in Furness..........  [VP]
................................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
..................  Blue Guide (1923-)
..................  Blue Guide: England (1980) 576
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 61
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2589350
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 22
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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