Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

[Danny Ayers]

Sheesh, this has to be useful somewhere:

http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html

I enter the name of a hamlet of maybe 8 houses in sheep-loving backwoods,
after two clicks I get -



Place Records


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Blackwell (inhabited place)

Lat: 53 14 N Long: 001 48 W (represented in degrees minutes direction)
Lat: 53.233 Long: -1.800 (represented in decimal degress and fractions of
degrees)


Note - Village near Tideswell; to be distinguished from another town named
Blackwell in Derbyshire. Jedediah Strutt, who with Arkwright invented the
spinning jenny, had a farm here.

Hierarchical Position:

Europe..........................(continent)
United Kingdom..................(nation)
England.........................(country)
Derbyshire......................(county)



Names:
Blackwell (C,V)
Blacheuuelle (H,V)...................... recorded in 1086

Place Types:
inhabited place (C)

Sources:
Blacheuuelle............................ Domesday Book (1985), 68 [VP]

Blackwell............................... Domesday Book (1985), 68 [VP]
Gazetteer of Great Britain
(1999), 77 [VP]