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Wałdowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship

village in Pomeranian, Poland

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ4977481 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wałdowo [vau̯ˈdɔvɔ] is a village in Gmina Miastko, Bytów County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. Wałdowo lies in a forested area. The nearest city is Miastko, 13 km (8 mi) to the west.

From 1975 to 1998 the village was in Słupsk Voivodeship.

Editorial summary

“Wałdowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship” enters the record as village in Pomeranian, Poland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wałdowo, Pomeranian and Voivodeship can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wałdowo, Pomeranian and Voivodeship.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Wałdowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Wałdowo, Pomeranian and Voivodeship provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4977481. The first chronological checks are 1975 and 1998.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Wałdowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Wałdowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship primary sources, Wałdowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship archive and Wałdowo research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Wałdowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Wałdowo, Pomeranian Voivodeship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.