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ID: 7025913
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7025913
Record Type:
administrative
Leigh (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 50 47 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 50.7833
decimal degrees
Long: 001 57 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -1.9500
decimal degrees
Note:
A 15th-century cross is here; nearby remains of a turf maze are said to have been the haunt of witches; not to be confused with another town of the same name also in Dorset.
Names:
Leigh
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Lege
(
H
,
V
,
Anglo-Saxon-P
,
U
,
N
)
............
recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Dorset
(county) (
P
)
....................
Leigh
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
Related geographic places:
distinguished from ....
Leigh
.......... (inhabited place)
..................................
(World, Europe, United Kingdom, England, Dorset) [7463712]
Sources and Contributors:
Lege..........
[
VP
]
...........
Domesday Book (1985)
94
Leigh..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Domesday Book (1985)
94
..............
Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999)
418
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Domesday Book (1985)
94
..................
Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999)
418
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
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