Little John's Ground (Pentridge)
Locality | |
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Coordinate | 50.961353, -1.945901 |
Adm. div. | Dorset |
Vicinity | In Pentridge, immediately E of Earthpits Lane; immediately SE of Whitey Top Farm |
Type | Area |
Interest | Robin Hood name |
Status | Defunct? |
First Record | 1838 |
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-10-24. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-04-22.
'Little John's Ground' was the name of an area in a close on the east side of Earthpits Lane in Pentridge, immediately southeast of Whitey Top Farm. First recorded in the 1838 tithe award for Pentridge, this field name is noted in the Place-Names of Dorset (1989), but the present entry would seem to be its debut on the world wide web. The 1838 tithe award lists the close as "Little Johns Ground or Whites Hill and Stony Closes", its state of cultivation as arable, its area as 17 acres, 2 roods and 5 perches (70946.45 m2). The close was then owned by Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury, and occupied by William Gilbert Goddard, Esq.[1]
Gazetteers
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.
MS sources
- 1838 tithe award for Pentridge, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 10, sub-piece 165, Image 008; schedule (£)
- 1838 tithe map for Pentridge, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 10, sub-piece 165, Sub-Image 001 (£).
Printed sources
- Mills, A.D. The Place-Names of Dorset (English Place-Name Society, vols. LII-LIII, LIX/LX, LXXXVI/LXXXVII) ([s.l.]; Nottingham, 1977-2010), pt. II, p. II (1989), pp. 237, 238 (bis); parish cf. p. 235.
Maps
- 25" O.S. map Dorset X.9 (1887; surveyed 1886)
- 25" O.S. map Dorset X.9 (1901; rev. 1900)
- 6" O.S. map Wiltshire LXXV (1887; surveyed 1876-86)
- 6" O.S. map Dorset X.SW & Se (1887; surveyed 1886)
- 6" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LIVA.SE (1899; rev. 1895)
- 6" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LIVA.SE (1899; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LIVA.SE (1911; rev. 1908)
- 6" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LIVA.SE (1926; rev. 1924).
Background
- Pentridge; village website
- Whitey Top Farm Lodges
- Wikipedia: Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury
- Wikipedia: Pentridge.
Also see
Notes
- ↑ 1838 tithe award for Pentridge, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 10, sub-piece 165, Image 008; schedule (£); 1838 tithe map for Pentridge, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 10, sub-piece 165, Sub-Image 001 (£); Mills, A.D. The Place-Names of Dorset (English Place-Name Society, vols. LII-LIII, LIX/LX, LXXXVI/LXXXVII) ([s.l.]; Nottingham, 1977-2010), pt. II, p. II (1989), pp. 237, 238 (bis); parish cf. p. 235. Wikipedia: Cropley Ashley-Cooper, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury. As of 25 Oct. 2017, a Google search yielded no resu-lts for this place-name.
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