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ID: 7032652
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7032652

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Waterton (deserted settlement)  Waterton (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 53 39 03 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 53.6511  decimal degrees
Long: 000 42 43 W  degrees minutes   Long: -0.7110  decimal degrees

Note: Located on the River Trent near Garthorpe and Luddington in the Isle of Axholme. Before the Norman Conquest it was held by a person named Fulcric, who held land and a hall here. At the time of the Domesday survey, it was waste. It was later held by a commoner family who took the name de Waterton; Sir Robert Waterton is mentioned in Shakespeare's Richard II. The town was deserted again in the 16th century, but the Georgian Waterton Hall remains.

Names:
Waterton (preferred,C,V,S)
Watretone (H,V)

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 North Lincolnshire (unitary authority)  ................  North Lincolnshire (unitary authority) (P)
Hierarchy of Waterton (deserted settlement)  ....................  Waterton (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)
archaeological site (C)
inhabited place (H)
village (H)
Medieval (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Waterton..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Medieval Archaeology 42:275
.................  National Archives of the United Kingdom [online] (n.d.) accessed 9 April 2009
.................  Pevsner et al, Lincolnshire (2002) 302
Watretone..........  [VP]
....................  National Archives of the United Kingdom [online] (n.d.) accessed 9 April 2009
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Medieval Archaeology 42:275
..................  National Archives of the United Kingdom [online] (n.d.) accessed 9 April 2009
..................  Pevsner et al, Lincolnshire (2002) 302
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (1998)

 

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