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ID: 7010988
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010988
Record Type:
administrative
Walsall (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 52 36 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 52.6000
decimal degrees
Long: 002 00 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -2.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on ridge between Wolverhampton & Birmingham; metal & leather processing town since 14th cen.; important nail, iron & saddlery industries began in 17th cen.; limestone & ironstone quarried in 19th & 20th cen.; coal mined until 1930s.
Names:
Walsall
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Wallsall
(
NA
,
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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West Midlands
(county) (
P
)
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Walsall
(unitary authority) (
P
)
........................
Walsall
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was important medieval commercial center
town (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
mining center (
H
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Wallsall..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Walsall..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 478
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
212
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 478
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2610816
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
212
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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