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ID: 7011276
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011276
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Shaftesbury (inhabited place)  Shaftesbury (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 00 19 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.0053  decimal degrees
Long: 002 11 36 W  degrees minutes   Long: -2.1933  decimal degrees

Note: Ancient hill town; foundations of the abbey originally endowed by King Alfred are here.

Names:
Shaftesbury (preferred,C,V,English,U)
Sceptesberie (H,V,Anglo-Saxon,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 Dorset (county)  ................  Dorset (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Shaftesbury (inhabited place)  ....................  Shaftesbury (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)

Sources and Contributors:
Sceptesberie..........  [VP]
.......................  Domesday Book (1985) 95
Shaftesbury..........  [GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.......................  Domesday Book (1985) 95
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 180
.......................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Domesday Book (1985) 95
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2607492
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 180
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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