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ID: 7442183
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7442183
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Wark (inhabited place)  Wark (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 55 04 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 55.0667  decimal degrees
Long: 002 13 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -2.2167  decimal degrees

Note: Located 12 miles north of Hexham. The name is from a Viking word for Earthworks, referring to the mound here where a meeting hall once stood.

Names:
Wark (preferred,NA,V,English-P,U)
Wark on Tyne (C,V,English,U)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Europe (continent)  ....  Europe (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United Kingdom (nation)  ........  United Kingdom (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of England (country)  ............  England (country) (P)
Hierarchy of Northumberland (county)  ................  Northumberland (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Wark (inhabited place)  ....................  Wark (inhabited place) (P,U)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)

Sources and Contributors:
Wark..........  [VP Preferred]
...........  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Wark on Tyne..........  [VP]
.......................  Gazetteer of British Place Names [online] (2004-)
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2610902
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Gazetteer of British Place Names [online] (2004-)

 

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