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ID: 7010460
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010460

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Halifax (inhabited place)  Halifax (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 53 43 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 53.7167  decimal degrees
Long: 001 51 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -1.8500  decimal degrees

Note: Located on River Hebble, 22 miles NE of Manchester; long important for its cloth mills & markets; 18th-cen. Piece Hall contains display of textile machinery; Daniel Defoe is said to have written parts of the novel Robinson Crusoe in an inn here.

Names:
Halifax (preferred,C,V,English,U)
Felsei (H,V)  ............ recorded in 1086
Halifacia (H,V)
Haliflex (H,V)  ............ used in 12th cen., meaning "holy flax field"
Hortonium (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 England (country)  ............  England (country) (P)
Hierarchy of West Yorkshire (county)  ................  West Yorkshire (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Calderdale (borough)  ....................  Calderdale (borough) (P)
Hierarchy of Halifax (inhabited place)  ........................  Halifax (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was noted medieval center
city (C)
manufacturing center (C)
trade center (C)
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Felsei..........  [VP]
.................  Oxford: English Place Names (1960) 212
Halifacia..........  [VP]
....................  Orbis Latinus (1971) 169
Halifax..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
.................  Blue Guide: England (1980) 555
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 80
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 344
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 482
Haliflex..........  [VP]
.................  Oxford: English Place Names (1960) 212
Hortonium..........  [VP]
....................  Orbis Latinus (1971) 169
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................  Blue Guide: England (1980) 555
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2597990
..................  Orbis Latinus (1971) 169
..................  Oxford: English Place Names (1960) 212
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 80
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 344
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 482
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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