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ID: 7011957
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011957
Record Type:
administrative
Bracknell (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 25 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.4167
decimal degrees
Long: 000 45 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -0.7500
decimal degrees
Note:
Designated a New Town in 1948; expanding "satellite" town since 1961; headquarters of country's Meteorological Office; there is evidence of settlement here dating back to the Iron Age; Ascot racecourse is 4 mi away.
Names:
Bracknell
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Braccan Heal
(
H
,
V
)
............
recorded in a 10th-cen. Saxon document
Bracknell New Town
(
H
,
V
)
............
1948-1983
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Bracknell Forest
(unitary authority) (
P
)
....................
Bracknell
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Braccan Heal..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Bracknell Forest Online
Bracknell..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
....................
Blue Guide: England (1980)
121
....................
Bracknell Forest Online
....................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
33
Bracknell New Town..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Bracknell Forest Online
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
..................
Blue Guide: England (1980)
121
..................
Bracknell Forest Online
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2590585
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
33
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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