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ID: 7024367
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http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7024367
Record Type:
administrative
Aldwych (neighborhood)
Note:
Part of London's West End. The name means "old farm" and was originally given to the street that passed it and later to the urban area that grew up around it. It is basically a semi-circular island of buildings in Westminster.
Names:
Aldwych
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Aldewich
(
H
,
V
)
............
recorded in 13th cen., meaning "old farm" in the sense of "disused farmland"
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United Kingdom
(nation) (
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England
(country) (
P
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Greater London
(metropolitan area) (
P
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London
(inhabited place) (
P
)
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City of Westminster
(borough) (
P
)
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Aldwych
(neighborhood) (
P
)
Place Types:
neighborhood (
preferred
,
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Aldewich..........
[
VP
]
.................
Dictionary of British Place Names (1994)
12
Aldwych..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Dictionary of British Place Names (1994)
12
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Dictionary of British Place Names (1994)
12
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
BBCi [online] (2001)
accessed 25 Aug 2003
..........
Dictionary of British Place Names (1994)
12
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