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ID: 1100066
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1100066
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Tintern (ruins)  Tintern (ruins)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 41 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.6833  decimal degrees
Long: 002 41 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -2.6833  decimal degrees

Note: Founded in 1131, though most of what remains today are ruins of rebuilding of 1220-1287; visited by Edward II in 1236; abbey was dissolved in 1537 & bought by crown in 1900; ruins were made famous by Wordsworth poems & 19th-cen. Romantic painters.

Names:
Tintern (preferred,C,V)
Tintern Abbey (C,V)

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 Wales (country)  ............  Wales (country) (P)
Hierarchy of County of Monmouthshire (unitary authority)  ................  County of Monmouthshire (unitary authority) (P)
Hierarchy of Tintern (ruins)  ....................  Tintern (ruins) (P)

Place Types:
ruins (preferred, C)  ............  constructed in 12th cen.
abbey (H)  ............  from 1131-1537

Sources and Contributors:
Tintern..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 198
Tintern Abbey..........  [VP]
..........................  Blue Guide: Wales (1979) 293-295
..........................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI,789
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Blue Guide: Wales (1979) 293-295
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI,789
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 198
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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