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ID: 7010541
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010541
Record Type:
administrative
Rochdale (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 53 37 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 53.6167
decimal degrees
Long: 002 09 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -2.1500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located at junction of rivers Spodden & Roch; market center in Middle Ages & became important textile center in 18th & 19th cen.; birthplace of the cooperative movement, The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers founded in 1844.
Names:
Rochdale
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Recedham
(
H
,
V
)
............
recorded in 1086
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Manchester, City and Borough of
(county) (
P
)
....................
Rochdale
(borough) (
P
)
........................
Rochdale
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was a noted medieval center
city (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
market center (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Recedham..........
[
VP
]
.................
Domesday Book (1985)
156
Rochdale..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 119
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................
Domesday Book (1985)
156
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 119
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2606372
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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