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ID: 1030744
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1030744
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Stevenage (inhabited place)  Stevenage (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 55 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.9167  decimal degrees
Long: 000 13 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -0.2167  decimal degrees

Note: Urban area 28 miles N of London; 1st new town designated under New Towns Act of 1946 to accomodate overspill population from London; site of 12th-cen. church & 16th-cen. coaching inns; center for electronic equipment manufacturing; name derives from the Saxon meaning 'hills by the highway;' 6 little hills near the Great North Road are possibly burial mounds.

Names:
Stevenage (preferred,C,V,English,U)
Stigenace (H,V)  ............ recorded 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 Hertfordshire (county)  ................  Hertfordshire (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Stevenage (inhabited place)  ....................  Stevenage (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)
manufacturing center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Stevenage..........  [VP Preferred]
....................  Domesday Book (1985) 138
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 259-260
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 189
Stigenace..........  [VP]
....................  Domesday Book (1985) 138
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Domesday Book (1985) 138
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 259-260
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2608712
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 189
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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