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ID: 7008557
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7008557
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Mold (inhabited place)  Mold (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 53 10 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 53.1667  decimal degrees
Long: 003 08 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -3.1333  decimal degrees

Note: Located between industrial cities of Deeside & Wrexham; in 430, native Christians defeated Picts & Scots; town grew around 12th-cen. Norman castle; emerged politically when Shire Hall was built in 1967; birthplace of 19th-cen. writer Daniel Owen.

Names:
Mold (preferred,C,V,English,U)
Yr Wyddgrug (C,V,Welsh,U)
Flintshire (H,V)

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 Wales (country)  ............  Wales (country) (P)
Hierarchy of Flintshire (unitary authority)  ................  Flintshire (unitary authority) (P)
Hierarchy of Mold (inhabited place)  ....................  Mold (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was an early Christian center
city (C)
county seat (C)
market center (C)
industrial center (C)
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Flintshire..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 228
Mold..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
...........  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
...........  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 228
...........  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 129
Yr Wyddgrug..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 228
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 228
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2603264
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 129
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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