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ID: 7028217
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7028217
Record Type:
administrative
Willoughby (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 53 13 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 53.2167
decimal degrees
Long: 000 12 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 0.2000
decimal degrees
Note:
Village; noted for Saxon church and as the birthplace of Captain John Smith (1580-1631), founder of the US state of Virginia. In a field nearby is a scheduled medieval earthwork of an unknown date. There are Bronze Age barrows nearby as well.
Names:
Willoughby
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Willoughby in the Marsh
(
C
,
V
)
Vernemetum
(
H
,
O
)
............
Roman name
Wilgebi
(
H
,
V
)
............
recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Lincolnshire
(county) (
P
)
....................
Willoughby
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Roman Empire
(former nation/state/empire) (
P,
H
)
........
Britannia
(province) (
P
)
............
Willoughby
(inhabited place) (
P,
H
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
village (
C
)
Saxon (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Vernemetum..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Athena, Romano-British Sites [online] (2000)
accessed 20 September 2004
Wilgebi..........
[
VP
]
.................
Domesday Book (1985)
176
Willoughby..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999)
772
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Willoughby in the Marsh..........
[
VP
]
.........................................
Domesday Book (1985)
176
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Athena, Romano-British Sites [online] (2000)
accessed 20 September 2004
..................
Domesday Book (1985)
176
..................
Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999)
772
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2611778
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Domesday Book (1985)
176
..........
Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999)
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