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ID: 7011947
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011947
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Eynsham (inhabited place)  Eynsham (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 46 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.7667  decimal degrees
Long: 001 23 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -1.3833  decimal degrees

Note: Noted as site of Early Bronze Age (2500-1500 BCE) burial mounds; was site of Anglo-Saxon hamlet; large Benedictine abbey was founded in 1005, though most construction is from 1086; first abbot was Aelfric Grammaticus; refounded after Norman Conquest; Eynsham Hall is here.

Names:
Eynsham (preferred,C,V,English,U)
Ensham (C,V,English,U)
Eglesham (H,V)  ............ recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086

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 Oxfordshire (county)  ................  Oxfordshire (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Eynsham (inhabited place)  ....................  Eynsham (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was frequented in the Early Bronze Age
town (C)
archaeological site (C)
monastic center (H)  ............  most of monastery is in ruins
Early Bronze Age (H)
burial site (H)
Anglo-Saxon (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Eglesham..........  [VP]
.................  Domesday Book (1985) 217
Ensham..........  [VP]
.................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1932) 251
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Eynsham..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Domesday Book (1985) 217
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 64
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1932) 251
..................  Domesday Book (1985) 217
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2595839
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 64
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Domesday Book (1985) 217

 

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