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Thornton

village on the Fylde, in Lancashire, England
Place town Q1024045
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Thornton

Summary

Thornton is a town[1]. Thornton ranks in the top 5% of town entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (19 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Thornton is located in Wyre[3].
  • Thornton is in the country of United Kingdom[4].
  • Thornton's image is recorded as Christchurch,thornton,uk.jpg[5].
  • Thornton's instance of is recorded as town[6].
  • Thornton's instance of is recorded as civil parish[7].
  • Thornton's postal code is recorded as FY5[8].
  • Thornton's part of is recorded as Thornton-Cleveleys[9].
  • Thornton's Commons category is recorded as Thornton, Lancashire[10].
  • Thornton's local dialing code is recorded as 01253[11].
  • Thornton's OS grid reference is recorded as SD339421[12].
  • Thornton's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 53.871, 'lon': -3.004}[13].
  • Thornton's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05s999[14].
  • Thornton's GeoNames ID is recorded as 2635972[15].
  • Thornton's BBC Things ID is recorded as ba4b55e7-02ad-4510-9b8a-3ac4ad9bcd63[16].
  • Thornton's UN/LOCODE is recorded as GBTHN[17].
  • Thornton's GNS Unique Feature ID is recorded as -2609684[18].
  • Thornton's OpenDomesday settlement ID is recorded as SD3342/thornton[19].
  • Thornton's TOID is recorded as 4000000074579496[20].
  • Thornton's Vision of Britain unit ID is recorded as 10381046[21].
  • Thornton's BBC News topic ID is recorded as cxrlk4yweprt[22].
  • Thornton's historic county is recorded as Lancashire[23].
  • Thornton's FactGrid item ID is recorded as Charlotte Berend-Corinth[24].
  • Thornton's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007567466405171[25].
  • Thornton's Yale LUX ID is recorded as place/e1b93263-fd4f-4ab1-a30f-ff4f1f09e9a6[26].

Body

Geography

Thornton is in the country of United Kingdom[4]. Thornton is located in Wyre[3]. Thornton's part of is recorded as Thornton-Cleveleys[9].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include town[6] and civil parish[7].

Why It Matters

Thornton ranks in the top 5% of town entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (19 views/month).[2] Thornton has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27]

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . A Vision of Britain through Time. wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . service.unece.org. service.unece.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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