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ID: 1029272
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1029272
Record Type:
administrative
Fowey (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 50 20 01 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 50.3336
decimal degrees
Long: 004 38 21 W
degrees minutes
Long: -4.6392
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on English Channel at mouth of Fowey river; was leading medieval Cornish port; center of kaolin production since the 18th century; was U.S. naval training base in World War II.
Names:
Fowey
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Saint Austell with Fowey
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Cornwall
(county) (
P
)
....................
Fowey
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was a medieval center; amalgamated with nearby St. Austell in 1968
town (
C
)
port (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....
Castle Dore
.......... (ancient site)
..............................
(World, Europe, United Kingdom, England, Cornwall) [8713175]
Sources and Contributors:
Fowey..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
68
Saint Austell with Fowey..........
[
VP
]
.........................................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 307
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 307
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2596490
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
68
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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