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ID: 1136742
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1136742
Record Type:
administrative
Roydon (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 52 46 04 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 52.7670
decimal degrees
Long: 000 31 31 E
degrees minutes
Long: 0.5250
decimal degrees
Note:
Near King's Lynn; not to be confused with another village of the same name also in Norfolk. Roydon is on the edge of Roydon Common and there is a duckpond here.
Names:
Roydon
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
British English-P
,
U
,
N
)
Roydon King's Lynn
(
C
,
V
)
Ridone
(
H
,
V
)
............
recorded in 1254
Reiduna
(
H
,
V
)
............
recorded in 1086
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Norfolk
(county) (
P
)
....................
Roydon
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
village (
C
)
Related geographic places:
distinguished from ....
Roydon
.......... (inhabited place)
..................................
(World, Europe, United Kingdom, England, Norfolk county) [7028576]
Sources and Contributors:
Reiduna..........
[
VP
]
.................
Domesday Book (1985)
193
Ridone..........
[
VP
]
.................
Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (1998)
Roydon..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999)
622
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-147
Roydon King's Lynn..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (1998)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Domesday Book (1985)
193
..................
Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999)
622
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-147
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Domesday Book (1985)
193
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