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Descriptive gazetteer entries. In 1607, William Camden's Britannia described Britain like this: BRITAINE or BRITANNIE, which also is ALBION, ... the most famous Iland, without comparison, of the whole world; severed from the continent of Europe by the interflowing of the Ocean, lieth against Germanie and France trianglewise, by reason of three ...
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Inwardleigh like this: INWARDLEIGH, a village and a parish in Okehampton district, Devon. The village stands on a beadstream of the river Torridge, 3½ miles NNW of Okehampton r. station; was formerly called Ingerley; and is a scattered place.
A VISION OF BRITIAN should be a textbook in all secondary and high schools core curriculum, taught concurrent of just after the politics course. It should be part of a required first year course in all architecture, civil engineering, political [science], and city planning schools.
Units covering this place. Our historical statistics are always for precisely defined areas, usually administrative units, not "places". We know about the following units named after Britain . Each has its own "home page" with much more information. Click on a tick to go directly to a particular statistical theme. Administrative Area: Popu-.
Highampton Devon. Click on the map for other historical maps of this place. In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Highampton like this: HAMPTON (HIGH), or HIGHAMPTON, a village and a parish in Okehampton district, Devon. The village stands near the river Torridge, 3½ miles W of Hatherleigh, and 9 NW ...
What is now the Great Britain Historical GIS, the resource behind this web site, began in the 1980s as a collection just of statistics. In particular, it was a collection of historical statistics about places, or rather administrative units. Those units had mostly been abolished many years ago, so in 1994 we started mapping historic boundaries.
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