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ID: 7027275
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7027275
Record Type:
administrative
Chesterton (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 52 33 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 52.5500
decimal degrees
Long: 000 21 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -0.3500
decimal degrees
Note:
Roman town of Durobrivae is nearby; there is a monument in the church to 17th-century poet John Dryden, whose family home was rebuilt at Alwalton; not to be confused with another place of the same name also in Cambridgeshire.
Names:
Chesterton
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Cestretune
(
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
)
................
Cambridgeshire
(county) (
P
)
....................
Chesterton
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Huntingdonshire
(former administrative division) (
P,
H
)
....................
Chesterton
(inhabited place) (
P,
H
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
village (
C
)
Related geographic places:
distinguished from ....
Chesterton
.......... (inhabited place)
..................................
(World, Europe, United Kingdom, England, Cambridgeshire) [7454184]
Sources and Contributors:
Cestretune..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Domesday Book (1985)
140
Chesterton..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Domesday Book (1985)
140
.......................
Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999)
152
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Domesday Book (1985)
140
..................
Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999)
152
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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