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ID: 1028940
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1028940
Record Type:
administrative
Corfe Castle (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 50 38 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 50.6333
decimal degrees
Long: 002 03 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -2.0500
decimal degrees
Note:
Ruins here of a castle originally built by William I on a fortified Saxon site; Cromwell's Roundheads blew up the castle in 1646.
Names:
Corfe Castle
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Castellum Warham
(
H
,
V
,
Anglo-Saxon-P
,
U
,
N
)
............
recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Dorset
(county) (
P
)
....................
Corfe Castle
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
historic site (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Castellum Warham..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Domesday Book (1985)
93
Corfe Castle..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Domesday Book (1985)
93
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
49
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Domesday Book (1985)
93
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2593233
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
49
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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