Creswell Crags

limestone gorge on the border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, England
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Creswell Crags

Summary

Creswell Crags is a cave with prehistoric art[1]. It draws 159 Wikipedia views per month (cave_with_prehistoric_art category, ranking #8 of 52).[2]

Key Facts

  • Creswell Crags is located in Elmton with Creswell[3].
  • Creswell Crags is located in Whitwell[4].
  • Creswell Crags is located in Holbeck[5].
  • Creswell Crags is in the country of United Kingdom[6].
  • Creswell Crags's image is recorded as Caves Creswell Crags - geograph.org.uk - 90873.jpg[7].
  • Creswell Crags's instance of is recorded as cave with prehistoric art[8].
  • Creswell Crags's instance of is recorded as archaeological site[9].
  • Creswell Crags's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 236151865[10].
  • Creswell Crags's Commons category is recorded as Creswell Crags[11].
  • Creswell Crags's has part is recorded as Palaeolithic and later prehistoric sites at Creswell Gorge, including Boat House Cave and Church Hole Cave[12].
  • Creswell Crags's has part is recorded as Palaeolithic and later prehistoric sites at Creswell Gorge including Pinhole Cave, Mother Grundy's Parlour and Robin Hood's Cave[13].
  • Creswell Crags's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 53.2612, 'lon': -1.19793}[14].
  • Creswell Crags's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01mq4f[15].
  • Creswell Crags's described by source is recorded as Subterranea Britannica[16].
  • Creswell Crags's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as place/Creswell-Crags[17].
  • Creswell Crags's heritage designation is recorded as scheduled monument[18].
  • Creswell Crags's heritage designation is recorded as Tentative World Heritage Site[19].
  • Creswell Crags's BBC Things ID is recorded as 87945506-1742-47b6-a275-a22ac924c885[20].
  • Creswell Crags's World Heritage criteria is recorded as (iii)[21].
  • Creswell Crags's World Heritage Tentative List ID is recorded as 5671[22].
  • Creswell Crags's PACTOLS thesaurus ID is recorded as pcrtoy565nT29A[23].
  • Creswell Crags's Atlas Obscura place ID is recorded as the-crags-at-creswell-derbyshire-england[24].
  • Creswell Crags's historic county is recorded as Nottinghamshire[25].
  • Creswell Crags's historic county is recorded as Derbyshire[26].
  • Creswell Crags's Kulturenvanteri monument ID is recorded as 309474[27].

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Geography

Creswell Crags is in the country of United Kingdom[6]. Located in include Elmton with Creswell[3], a civil parish[28], in United Kingdom[29]; Whitwell[4], a village[30], in United Kingdom[31]; and Holbeck[5], a village[32], in United Kingdom[33].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include cave with prehistoric art[8] and archaeological site[9]. Heritage statuses include scheduled monument[18] and Tentative World Heritage Site[19].

Cultural Significance

Things named for Creswell Crags include Creswellian culture[34], an archaeological culture[35].

Why It Matters

Creswell Crags draws 159 Wikipedia views per month (cave_with_prehistoric_art category, ranking #8 of 52).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36]

Entities named for it include Creswellian culture[34], an archaeological culture[35].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] . wikidata.org.
  2. [7] . wikidata.org.
  3. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [3] . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . National Heritage List for England. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [34] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [36] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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