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ID: 1028940
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1028940
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Corfe Castle (inhabited place)  Corfe Castle (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 50 38 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 50.6333  decimal degrees
Long: 002 03 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -2.0500  decimal degrees

Note: Ruins here of a castle originally built by William I on a fortified Saxon site; Cromwell's Roundheads blew up the castle in 1646.

Names:
Corfe Castle (preferred,C,V,English,U)
Castellum Warham (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 Dorset (county)  ................  Dorset (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Corfe Castle (inhabited place)  ....................  Corfe Castle (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
historic site (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Castellum Warham..........  [VP]
.............................  Domesday Book (1985) 93
Corfe Castle..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Domesday Book (1985) 93
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 49
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Domesday Book (1985) 93
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2593233
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 49
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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