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ID: 7011536 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011536			Record Type: administrative

Sandwich (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 16 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 51.2667 decimal degrees
Long: 001 21 00 E degrees minutes			Long: 1.3500 decimal degrees

Note: S of the River Stour; an old Cinque Port; 1st mentioned when St. Wilfrid returned here from France in 661; landing place for one of the 1st Danish attacks on England in 850; sacked by the French in the 13th cen. & in 1457; its ships defeated the French during the reign of Henry III.

Names:

Sandwich (preferred,C,V,English,U)
Sandwic (H,V)	............	recorded in 1086

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

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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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Kent (county) (P)

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Sandwich (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)
port (H)
borough (H)

Sources and Contributors:

Sandwic..........	[VP]
.................	Domesday Book (1985) 142

Sandwich..........	[BHA, VP Preferred]
.................	Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
.................	Domesday Book (1985) 142
.................	NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 173

Subject: .....	[BHA, VP]
..................	Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................	Domesday Book (1985) 142
..................	NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2607105
..................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 173


Note:
English	..........	[VP]

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