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ID: 7011274
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011274
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Bournemouth (inhabited place)  Bournemouth (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 50 43 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 50.7167  decimal degrees
Long: 001 53 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -1.8833  decimal degrees

Note: Popular resort since ca. 1810, when town grew around residence of Dorset squire, Lewis Tregonwell; expanded with railways 1870; called "Sandbourne" in Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles; includes large residential areas & some light industry.

Names:
Bournemouth (preferred,C,V,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 England (country)  ............  England (country) (P)
Hierarchy of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (unitary authority)  ................  Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (unitary authority) (P,U)
Hierarchy of Bournemouth (inhabited place)  ....................  Bournemouth (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  town grew up around an existing noble residence in 19th cen.
city (C)
tourist center (C)
resort center (C)
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Bournemouth..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.......................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
.......................  Blue Guide: England (1980) 137
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 431
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 32
.......................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................  Blue Guide: England (1980) 137
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 431
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2590498
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 32
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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