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Winchcombe (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 51 57 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 51.9500 decimal degrees |
Long: 001 58 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -1.9667 decimal degrees |
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Note: Was once an Anglo-Saxon walled city prosperous from wool, then tobacco, & then paper; there is a mill at Postlip & a row of almshouses by Sir Gilbert Scott. |
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Winchcombe (preferred,C,V,English,U)
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Winchcomb (NA,V,English,U)
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Wicecombe (H,V)
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............ | recorded in 1086 |
Wicelcumbe (H,V)
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............ | recorded in 1086 |
Wincelcumbe (H,V)
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............ | recorded in 1086 |
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inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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town (C) |
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fortified settlement (H) |
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