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ID: 7011789
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011789
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Greenwich (neighborhood)  Greenwich (neighborhood)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 29 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.4833  decimal degrees
Long: 000 00 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 0.0000  decimal degrees

Note: Home of former Royal Greenwich Observatory (1675-1958), site of the Greenwich meridian, which is the optical axis that runs through the historic "Airy transit circle" & serves as the basis for longitude & for standard time in most of the world.

Names:
Greenwich (preferred,C,V,English,U)

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 Greater London (metropolitan area)  ................  Greater London (metropolitan area) (P)
Hierarchy of London (inhabited place)  ....................  London (inhabited place) (P)
Hierarchy of Greenwich (borough)  ........................  Greenwich (borough) (P)
Hierarchy of Greenwich (neighborhood)  ............................  Greenwich (neighborhood) (P)

Place Types:
neighborhood (preferred, C)

Sources and Contributors:
Greenwich..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
....................  Blue Guide: London (1978) 280
....................  London Encyclopaedia (1986) 334
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 76
....................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 466
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Blue Guide: London (1978) 280
..................  London Encyclopaedia (1986) 334
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2597684
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 76
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 466
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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