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ID: 7011239
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7011239

 

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

Coordinates:
Lat: 51 08 48 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 51.1467  decimal degrees
Long: 002 42 52 W  degrees minutes   Long: -2.7144  decimal degrees

Note: Located across the River Blue from the village of Street. Remains of timber trackways here indicate that the town has been inhabited since Neolithic times. Was long a center of commerce and site of Glasonbury Abbey.

Names:
Glastonbury (preferred,C,V,English,U,N)

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 Somerset (county)  ................  Somerset (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Glastonbury (inhabited place)  ....................  Glastonbury (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  inhabited in Neolithic times
town (C)
market center (C)
monastic center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Glastonbury..........  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP Preferred]
.......................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
.......................  Blue Guide: Ireland (1979)
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 73
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
..................  Blue Guide: Ireland (1979)
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2597059
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 73
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Gazetteer of British Place Names [online] (2004-)

 

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