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ID: 7011886
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011886
Record Type:
administrative
Hitchin (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 57 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.9500
decimal degrees
Long: 000 16 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -0.2667
decimal degrees
Note:
Market town; the Norman church here, the largest in Hertfordshire, contains Roman bricks; birthplace of the poet George Chapman (1559-1634) & the inventor Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-98).
Names:
Hitchin
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Hiz
(
H
,
V
)
............
recorded in 1086
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Hertfordshire
(county) (
P
)
....................
Hitchin
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Hitchin..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
.................
Domesday Book (1985)
137
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Hiz..........
[
VP
]
...........
Domesday Book (1985)
137
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................
Domesday Book (1985)
137
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2598798
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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