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ID: 1050964 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1050964			Record Type: administrative

Newtown Saint Boswells (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 55 35 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 55.5833 decimal degrees
Long: 002 41 00 W degrees minutes			Long: -2.6833 decimal degrees

Note: Located in Tweed basin, SE of Endinburgh on Endinburgh-Newcastle railway; before 1929, town served as residential area for mainly railway employees; is a processing center for livestock & crops grown in area; site of tomb of author Sir Walter Scott.

Names:

Newtown Saint Boswells (preferred,C,V,English,U)

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Scotland (country) (P)

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Scottish Borders (unitary authority) (P)

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Newtown Saint Boswells (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)
city (C)
regional capital (C)	............	since 1975
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:

Newtown Saint Boswells..........	[VP Preferred]
.........................................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 664
.........................................	NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.........................................	Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-121

Subject: .....	[VP]
..................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 664
..................	NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2604126
..................	Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-121


Note:
English	..........	[VP]

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