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Gloucester (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 51 50 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 51.8333 decimal degrees |
| Long: 002 15 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -2.2500 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located on the site of Roman town of Glevum; center for leather and cloth trade from 12th-16th centuries; Perpendicular style cathedral, begun in 1089, contains grave of Edward II; world's first Sunday school was founded here by Robert Raikes in 1780; the New Inn is a 15th-century pilgrims' hostel; William I commissioned the 'Domesday' survey here at his Christmas council of 1085. |
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| Gloucester (preferred,C,V,English,U)
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| Caer Glou (H,V)
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| Gleawe-Caestre (H,V)
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| Glevum (H,V)
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............ | ancient |
| Glouuecestre (H,V)
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Mercia (historical region) (P,H) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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founded by emperor Nerva ca. 96-98 CE |
| city (C) |
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given city status in 1605 |
| county seat (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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| manufacturing center (C) |
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| episcopal see (C) |
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established in 1541, after Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries |
| capital (H) |
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of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia, after foundation of Abbey of St. Peter by King Osric of Northumbria in 681 |
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