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ID: 7025143
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7025143
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Birchover (inhabited place)  Birchover (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 53 09 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 53.1500  decimal degrees
Long: 001 39 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -1.6500  decimal degrees

Note: Village noted for nearby Rowtor Rocks formation containing numerous tunnels, carvings, and caves. Various prehistoric monuments are nearby, including Doll Tor and stone circles on Stanton Moor. The Museum here houses the Bronze Age finds from Stanton Moor.

Names:
Birchover (preferred,C,V)
Barcovere (H,V,Anglo-Saxon-P,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 Derbyshire (county)  ................  Derbyshire (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Birchover (inhabited place)  ....................  Birchover (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
village (C)
Bronze Age (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Barcovere..........  [VP]
....................  Domesday Book (1985) 68
Birchover..........  [VP Preferred]
....................  Domesday Book (1985) 68
....................  Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999) 69
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Domesday Book (1985) 68
..................  Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999) 69
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)

 

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