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ID: 7010370 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7010370			Record Type: administrative

Kingston-Upon-Hull (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 53 43 00 N degrees minutes			Lat: 53.7167 decimal degrees
Long: 000 20 00 W degrees minutes			Long: -0.3333 decimal degrees

Note: Chief port serving Humber River & its tributaries for over 400 years; busy wool port in 16th cen.; Governor Hotham's refusal to admit Charles I to town in 1642 was first incident of English Civil War; expanded greatly during Industrial Revolution.

Names:

Kingston-Upon-Hull (preferred,C,V)

Kingston Upon Hull (C,V)

Hull (C,V,English,U)

Kingston upon Hull (NA,V,English,U)

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

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Europe (continent) (P)

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United Kingdom (nation) (P)

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England (country) (P)

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Kingston upon Hull (unitary authority) (P)

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Kingston-Upon-Hull (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)	............	founded as a seaport by Edward I in late 13th cen.
city (C)	............	since 1897
county seat (C)	............	since 1981, when construction of Humber Bridge linked communications to either side of river
port (C)
transportation center (C)
industrial center (C)
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:

Hull..........	[BHA, GRLPA, VP]
...........	Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
...........	Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........	NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 87
...........	Van Marle, Pittura Italiana (1932)

Kingston-Upon-Hull..........	[BHA, VP Preferred]
...................................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 101

Kingston Upon Hull..........	[VP]
...................................	NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2000-2003) Accessed 08/14/2002.

Kingston upon Hull..........	[VP]
...................................	NGA/NIMA database (2003-)

Subject: .....	[BHA, GRLPA, VP]
..................	Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1970)
..................	Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................	NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -2600203
..................	NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2000-2003) Accessed 08/14/2002.
..................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 101; 87
..................	Van Marle, Pittura Italiana (1932)


Note:
English	..........	[VP]

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