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ID: 7442183
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7442183
Record Type:
administrative
Wark (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 55 04 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 55.0667
decimal degrees
Long: 002 13 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -2.2167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located 12 miles north of Hexham. The name is from a Viking word for Earthworks, referring to the mound here where a meeting hall once stood.
Names:
Wark
(
preferred
,
NA
,
V
,
English-P
,
U
)
Wark on Tyne
(
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Hierarchical Position:
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Europe
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United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
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England
(country) (
P
)
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Northumberland
(county) (
P
)
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Wark
(inhabited place) (
P,
U
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Wark..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...........
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Wark on Tyne..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Gazetteer of British Place Names [online] (2004-)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2610902
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Gazetteer of British Place Names [online] (2004-)
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