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ID: 7010914
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010914
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Bury Saint Edmunds (inhabited place)  Bury Saint Edmunds (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 52 15 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 52.2500  decimal degrees
Long: 000 43 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 0.7167  decimal degrees

Note: Town grew around 7th-cen. monastery, built by Sigebert, King of East Angles; noted for 10th-cen. shrine of St. Edmund & ruins of 11th-cen. Benedictine abbey, where barons drew up basis for Magna Carta in in 1214; site of Town Hall (1780) by Robert Adam.

Names:
Bury Saint Edmunds (preferred,C,V,English,U)
Bury St. Edmunds (C,V)
Beodricesworth (H,O)

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 Suffolk (county)  ................  Suffolk (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Bury Saint Edmunds (inhabited place)  ....................  Bury Saint Edmunds (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  grew up around existing monastery, was chartered in 1606
city (C)
agricultural center (C)
episcopal see (C)  ............  established in 1914
pilgrimage center (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Beodricesworth..........  [VP]
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 671
Bury Saint Edmunds..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
...................................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
...................................  Blue Guide: England (1980) 477
...................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 671
...................................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...................................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 36
Bury St. Edmunds..........  [GRLPSC]
.............................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
..................  Blue Guide: England (1980) 477
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 671
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2591413
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 36
..................  USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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