| LC control no. | n 80097355 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | Plymouth (England) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | England--Plymouth |
| Variant(s) | Plymouth, Eng. Plymouth (Devon) City of Plymouth (England) County Borough of Plymouth (England) Borough of Plymouth (England) |
| Associated country | Great Britain England |
| Associated place | Devon (England) Plymouth Sound (England) |
| Found in | Bartholomew gaz. of Brit., 1977: (Plymouth, Devon; city) Foreign names information bulletin, July 31, 2001 (former name: none; new name: Plymouth [short form], City of--ADM1, 50°23ʹN 04°08ʹW (UKK4)) Health report ... 1914: t.p. (county borough of Plymouth); 1915: t.p. (borough of Plymouth) GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (ppl; 50°22ʹ17ʺN 004°08ʹ35ʺW) Wikipedia, viewed 12 July 2018 (Plymouth; city situated on the south coast of Devon, England, approximately 37 miles (60 km) south-west of Exeter and 190 miles (310 km) west-south-west of London; enclosing the city are the mouths of the river Plym and river Tamar, which are naturally incorporated into Plymouth Sound to form a boundary with Cornwall; village of Sutton was founded in the ninth century; the name Plymouth first officially replaced Sutton in a charter of King Henry VI in 1440; during the Industrial Revolution, the neighbouring town of Devonport became a strategic Royal Naval shipbuilding and dockyard town; in 1914 three neighbouring independent towns, viz., the county borough of Plymouth, the county borough of Devonport, and the urban district of East Stonehouse were merged to form a single County Borough; the combined town took the name of Plymouth which, in 1928, achieved city status; settlements of Plympton and Plymstock along with other outlying suburbs were incorporated into the city in 1967) Collins Britain atlas and gazetteer, 1999 (Plymouth, Plym.; city, largest city in SW England, 100m/160 km SW of Bristol; port and naval base; Plymouth City Airport to N of city) |
| Geographic area code | e-uk-en |
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