| LC control no. | n 88278686 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | Bexhill (England) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | England--Bexhill |
| Variant(s) | Bexhill, Eng. Bexhill-on-Sea (England) Bexle (England) Bexelei (England) |
| Associated country | Great Britain England |
| Associated place | East Sussex (England) Sussex (England) |
| Found in | Barth. gaz. of places in Brit., 1986 (Bexhill, E. Sussex, residential town & resort; no others cited) LC database, 1-24-89 (hdg.: Bexhill, Eng.) Francis Frith's Hastings & Bexhill, 2000: p. 55 (Bexhill-on-Sea) p. 60 (Bexhill; Bexle; Bexelei) GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (ppl; 50°51ʹ00ʺN 000°29ʹ00ʺE) Wikipedia, viewed 3 May 2016 (Bexhill-on-Sea; often simply Bexhill; seaside town situated in the ceremonial county of East Sussex in South East England; first reference to Bexelei, as it was originally called, was in a charter granted by King Offa of Mercia in 772 AD; small rural village of Bexhill was transformed into an exclusive seaside resort in the 1890s; became an Incorporated Borough in 1902; during local government reform in 1974, Bexhill became part of Rother District Council, thereby losing its Town Council and becoming a Charter Trustees town represented by the Bexhill councillors of Rother District Council; recent plans to recreate a Bexhill Town Council) Collins Britain atlas and gazeteer, 1999 (Bexhill, E. Suss.; town, seaside resort, 5m/8km W of Hastings) |
| Geographic area code | e-uk-en |
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