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ID: 1050726
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1050726
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Hamilton (inhabited place)  Hamilton (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 55 45 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 55.7500  decimal degrees
Long: 004 03 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -4.0500  decimal degrees

Note: Located at junction of Avon Water & River Clyde; named in 1445 after Hamilton family, to whom town was given after Battle of Bannock in 1314; royal burgh 1548-1670; grew in 19th cen. with coal & iron industries; center for textiles & dairy products.

Names:
Hamilton (preferred,C,V,English,U)
Cadzow (H,O,English,U)

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 Scotland (country)  ............  Scotland (country) (P)
Hierarchy of South Lanarkshire (unitary authority)  ................  South Lanarkshire (unitary authority) (P)
Hierarchy of Hamilton (inhabited place)  ....................  Hamilton (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled since prehistoric times
town (C)
industrial center (C)
commercial center (C)
market center (C)
manufacturing center (C)
mining center (H)  ............  from 19th cen. until 1947
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Cadzow..........  [VP]
.................  Blue Guide: Scotland (1980) 116
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Hamilton..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 658
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 80
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Blue Guide: Scotland (1980) 116
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 658
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2598052; -2591497
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 80
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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