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ID: 1028730
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1028730
Record Type:
administrative
Caistor (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 53 29 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 53.4833
decimal degrees
Long: 000 19 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -0.3167
decimal degrees
Note:
Town encircled by ancient Roman walls; mounds here may mark the site of King Egbert's victory over the Mercians in 829; the church has Saxon and Norman traces.
Names:
Caistor
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Castre
(
H
,
V
)
............
recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086
Hierarchical Position:
World
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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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Caistor
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Roman Empire
(former nation/state/empire) (
P,
H
)
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Britannia
(province) (
P
)
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Caistor
(inhabited place) (
P,
H
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
fortified settlement (
H
)
ancient site (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Caistor..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Domesday Book (1985)
169
.................
Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999)
127
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Castre..........
[
VP
]
.................
Domesday Book (1985)
169
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Domesday Book (1985)
169
..................
Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999)
127
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2591556
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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