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ID: 7025735
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7025735
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Sowton (inhabited place)  Sowton (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 50 43 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 50.7167  decimal degrees
Long: 003 27 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -3.4500  decimal degrees

Note: Bishop's Court is said to have been the home of one of the builders of Exeter Cathedral.

Names:
Sowton (preferred,C,V)
Clyst Fomison (H,V)
Clis (H,V,Anglo-Saxon-P,U,N)  ............ recorded in the Domesday Book 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 Devon (county)  ................  Devon (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Sowton (inhabited place)  ....................  Sowton (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)

Sources and Contributors:
Clis..........  [VP]
...........  Domesday Book (1985) 86
Clyst Fomison..........  [VP]
..........................  Domesday Book (1985) 86
Sowton..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Domesday Book (1985) 86
.................  Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999) 665
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Domesday Book (1985) 86
..................  Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999) 665
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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