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ID: 7025872
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7025872
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Over Compton (inhabited place)  Over Compton (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 50 57 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 50.9500  decimal degrees
Long: 002 35 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -2.5833  decimal degrees

Note: Was once one village along with Nether Compton; nearby Compton House is a farm where butterflies and moths are bred.

Names:
Over Compton (preferred,C,V,English,U)
Contone (H,V,Anglo-Saxon-P,U,N)  ............ recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086

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 Dorset (county)  ................  Dorset (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Over Compton (inhabited place)  ....................  Over Compton (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)

Related geographic places:
related to ....  Nether Compton .......... (inhabited place)
..................  (World, Europe, United Kingdom, England, Dorset) [7025871]

Sources and Contributors:
Contone..........  [VP]
.................  Domesday Book (1985) 93
Over Compton..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Domesday Book (1985) 93
.......................  Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999) 552
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Domesday Book (1985) 93
..................  Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999) 552
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2604866
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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