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ID: 1028283
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1028283
Record Type:
administrative
Alford (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 53 15 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 53.2500
decimal degrees
Long: 000 11 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 0.1833
decimal degrees
Note:
Small market town.
Names:
Alford
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Alforde
(
C
,
V
)
............
name recorded in 1086; probably from Old English "alder ford," thus meaning "old ford"
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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Europe
(continent) (
P
)
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United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
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England
(country) (
P
)
................
Lincolnshire
(county) (
P
)
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Alford
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Alford..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Domesday Book (1985)
168
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
10
Alforde..........
[
VP
]
.................
Dictionary of British Place Names (1994)
12
.................
Domesday Book (1985)
168
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Dictionary of British Place Names (1994)
12
..................
Domesday Book (1985)
168
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2588079
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
10
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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