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ID: 7025273
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7025273
Record Type:
administrative
Peak Cavern (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 53 20 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 53.3333
decimal degrees
Long: 001 47 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -1.7833
decimal degrees
Note:
A vast limestone cave near the village of Castleton; from the cave a cliff rises almost vertically to the land on which the remains of Peverel's castle still stand; the castle is one of England's most spectacular surviving Norman castles.
Names:
Peak Cavern
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Pechefers
(
H
,
V
,
Anglo-Saxon-P
,
U
,
N
)
............
recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086
Hierarchical Position:
World
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Europe
(continent) (
P
)
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United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
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England
(country) (
P
)
................
Derbyshire
(county) (
P
)
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Peak Cavern
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Peak Cavern..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Domesday Book (1985)
65
.......................
Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999)
563
Pechefers..........
[
VP
]
....................
Domesday Book (1985)
70
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Domesday Book (1985)
65; 70
..................
Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999)
563
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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