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ID: 7011899
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011899
Record Type:
administrative
Buckingham (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 52 00 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 52.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 000 59 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -0.9833
decimal degrees
Note:
Was once the capital of the shire, beginning in the 10th century; Elizabeth I made an ostentatious visit in 1578; fire in 1725 destroyed a third of the town; much new housing and an independent university today.
Names:
Buckingham
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Bocheland
(
H
,
V
,
Anglo-Saxon-P
,
U
,
N
)
............
recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Buckinghamshire
(county) (
P
)
....................
Buckingham
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Bocheland..........
[
VP
]
....................
Domesday Book (1985)
42
Buckingham..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Domesday Book (1985)
39
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
35
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Domesday Book (1985)
39; 42
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2591189
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
35
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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