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ID: 4009271
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/4009271
Record Type:
administrative
Rievaulx (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 54 16 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 54.2667
decimal degrees
Long: 001 07 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -1.1167
decimal degrees
Note:
Site of ruins of earliest Cistercian abbey in country, Rievaulx Abbey, founded in 1131 by Walter Espec; abbey was abandoned in 1538.
Names:
Rievaulx
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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Europe
(continent) (
P
)
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United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
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England
(country) (
P
)
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North Yorkshire
(county) (
P
)
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Rievaulx
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was thriving medieval center
town (
C
)
monastic center (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Rievaulx..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
.................
Blue Guide: England (1980)
644
.................
New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967-1989)
XII, 494-495
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
164
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................
Blue Guide: England (1980)
644
..................
New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967-1989)
XII, 494-495
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2606282
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
164
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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