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ID: 7011341
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011341
Record Type:
administrative
Lostwithiel (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 50 24 12 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 50.4033
decimal degrees
Long: 004 40 03 W
degrees minutes
Long: -4.6675
decimal degrees
Note:
Town built in medieval grid plan by River Fowey; grew around nearby Restormel Castle (ca. 1100); tin smelting and coinage center in the 13th century; during English Civil War, Charles I defeated Parliamentarians on September 2, 1644.
Names:
Lostwithiel
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Cornwall
(county) (
P
)
....................
Lostwithiel
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was an important early center
town (
C
)
manufacturing center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of the duchy of Cornwall under the lords of Restormel from 11th-13th cen.
Sources and Contributors:
Lostwithiel..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
.......................
Blue Guide: England (1980)
VII, 487
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 531
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
115
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................
Blue Guide: England (1980)
VII, 487
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 531
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2602051
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
115
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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