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ID: 7010377
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010377
Record Type:
administrative
Scunthorpe (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 53 35 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 53.5833
decimal degrees
Long: 000 39 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -0.6500
decimal degrees
Note:
Industrial town dominated by steel making; grew around local ironstone quarries in late 19th cen.; also includes clothing factories & shops that serve surrounding rural area.
Names:
Scunthorpe
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Escumetorp
(
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
)
................
North Lincolnshire
(unitary authority) (
P
)
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Scunthorpe
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
developed around quarries in 19th cen.
town (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Escumetorp..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Domesday Book (1985)
174
Scunthorpe..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 575
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
178
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................
Domesday Book (1985)
174
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 575
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2607324
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
178
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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