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ID: 7027061
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7027061
Record Type:
administrative
Kenchester (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 52 05 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 52.0833
decimal degrees
Long: 002 50 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -2.8333
decimal degrees
Note:
Site of a Roman walled town that grew up along the main east-west road in the Wye valley.
Names:
Kenchester
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Chenecestre
(
H
,
V
)
............
recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086
Magnis
(
H
,
O
)
............
Roman
Magna Castra
(
H
,
O
)
............
Roman
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Herefordshire
(unitary authority) (
P
)
....................
Kenchester
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Roman Empire
(former nation/state/empire) (
P,
H
)
........
Britannia
(province) (
P
)
............
Kenchester
(inhabited place) (
P,
H
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
fortified settlement (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Chenecestre..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Domesday Book (1985)
131
Kenchester..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Domesday Book (1985)
131
.......................
Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999)
391
Magna Castra..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Domesday Book (1985)
131
Magnis..........
[
VP
]
.................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1976)
545
.................
Romano-British Placenames [online] (1999)
accessed 16 August 2004
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Domesday Book (1985)
131
..................
Gazetteer of Great Britain (1999)
391
..................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1976)
545
..................
Romano-British Placenames [online] (1999)
accessed 16 August 2004
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1976)
545
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