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ID: 1029973
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1029973
Record Type:
administrative
Market Bosworth (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 52 37 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 52.6167
decimal degrees
Long: 001 24 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -1.4000
decimal degrees
Note:
Made famous by the Battle at Bosworth Field which took place 2 mi S in 1485; the battle ended the War of the Roses & initiated the Tudor dynasty.
Names:
Market Bosworth
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Boseworde
(
H
,
V
)
............
recorded in 1086
Hierarchical Position:
World
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Europe
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P
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United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
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England
(country) (
P
)
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Leicestershire
(county) (
P
)
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Market Bosworth
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Boseworde..........
[
VP
]
....................
Domesday Book (1985)
162
Market Bosworth..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Domesday Book (1985)
159
.............................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.............................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Domesday Book (1985)
159; 162
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2602605
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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