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ID: 7005008
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005008
Record Type:
administrative
Wotton-under-Edge (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 38 17 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.6381
decimal degrees
Long: 002 20 46 W
degrees minutes
Long: -2.3461
decimal degrees
Note:
Important wool town in the 17th-19th centuries; Isaac Pitman developed his shorthand system here.
Names:
Wotton-under-Edge
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Wotton-Under-Edge
(
C
,
V
)
Wotton under Edge
(
C
,
V
)
Vatune
(
H
,
V
)
............
recorded in 1086
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Gloucestershire
(county) (
P
)
....................
Wotton-under-Edge
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Vatune..........
[
VP
]
.................
Domesday Book (1985)
115
Wotton-under-Edge..........
[
VP Preferred
]
................................
Domesday Book (1985)
115
................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
................................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
217
Wotton-Under-Edge..........
[
BHA
]
................................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
Wotton under Edge..........
[
VP
]
................................
Domesday Book (1985)
115
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................
Domesday Book (1985)
115
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2612161
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
217
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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