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ID: 7011395
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011395
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Selborne (inhabited place)  Selborne (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 05 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.0833  decimal degrees
Long: 000 56 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -0.9333  decimal degrees

Note: Made famous by its 18th-cen. curate, the naturalist Gilbert White, who wrote the "Natural History of Selborne;" most of the royal Forest of Woolmer is in the modern parish of Selborne; there is a famous old yew tree here, thought to be over 1000 yrs old.

Names:
Selborne (preferred,C,V,English,U)
Lesborne (H,V)  ............ recorded in 1086
Selesburne (H,V)  ............ recorded 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 Hampshire (county)  ................  Hampshire (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Selborne (inhabited place)  ....................  Selborne (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
village (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Lesborne..........  [VP]
.................  Domesday Book (1985) 125
Selborne..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
.................  Domesday Book (1985) 119
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Selesburne..........  [VP]
.......................  Domesday Book (1985) 125
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
..................  Domesday Book (1985) 119; 125
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2607412
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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