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ID: 7011887
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011887
Record Type:
administrative
Letchworth (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 51 58 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 51.9667
decimal degrees
Long: 000 13 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -0.2167
decimal degrees
Note:
Garden city 'founded' in 1903 by Ebenezer Howard as a pioneering example of urban planning; the central highway is the prehistoric Icknield Way.
Names:
Letchworth
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English
,
U
)
Letchworth Garden City
(
C
,
V
)
Leceworde
(
H
,
V
)
............
recorded in 1086
Lechewrde
(
H
,
V
)
............
recorded in 1198
Luchewrth
(
H
,
V
)
Luchewrthia
(
H
,
V
)
............
recorded ca. 1200
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Europe
(continent) (
P
)
........
United Kingdom
(nation) (
P
)
............
England
(country) (
P
)
................
Hertfordshire
(county) (
P
)
....................
Letchworth
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Leceworde..........
[
VP
]
....................
Domesday Book (1985)
137
Lechewrde..........
[
VP
]
....................
Oxford: English Place Names (1960)
296
Letchworth..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
.......................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
.......................
Domesday Book (1985)
137
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
112
Letchworth Garden City..........
[
VP
]
.........................................
"Letchworth," Town & Country Planning
.........................................
Letchworth Garden City Heritage website
accessed 8/01
Luchewrth..........
[
VP
]
....................
Oxford: English Place Names (1960)
296
Luchewrthia..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Oxford: English Place Names (1960)
296
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
"Letchworth," Town & Country Planning
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
..................
Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................
Domesday Book (1985)
137
..................
Letchworth Garden City Heritage website
accessed 8/01
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2601032
..................
Oxford: English Place Names (1960)
296
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
112
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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