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ID: 7011218
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011218
Record Type:
administrative
Swindon (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 31 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.5167
decimal degrees
Long: 001 47 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -1.7833
decimal degrees
Note:
Designated as expanding town under 1952 Town Development Act; Great Western Railway built its main engineering works here in 1847; country's first municipal art center opened in 1947; accepted overspill population from London in 1950s.
Names:
Swindon
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preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
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Hierarchical Position:
World
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Europe
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United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
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England
(country) (
P
)
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Swindon
(unitary authority) (
P
)
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Swindon
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
cultural center (
C
)
administrative center (
C
)
............
administrative headquarters of the unitary authority since 1997
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Swindon..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI,447
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
192
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI,447
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2609263
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
192
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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