Littlejohn Road (St Mary Cray)

Locality
Coordinate	51.387558, 0.104365
Adm. div.	Kent, now Greater London
Vicinity	Between Friar and Oakdene roads; S. of Powerest Road
Type	Thoroughfare
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	c. 1944

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Littlejohn Road.

Littlejohn Road / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-25. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

Littlejohn Road is one of a dozen residential streets in St Mary Cray (formerly a parish in Kent, now part of the London Borough of Bromley) whose names were more or less certainly inspired by that of a small wood that existed in this area before urbanization kicked in: Robin Hood Shaw. See further the page on the St Mary Cray place-name cluster.

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.

Maps

• John Bartholomew & Son Ltd. Bartholomew's Reference Atlas of Greater London, Covering the Whole Metropolitan Police Area, with Larger Scale Maps For Central London and Index For Quick Location of Over 62,000 Names (Edinburgh, 1968), 118E (Littlejohn Road shown and labelled)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (c. 1868; surveyed 1867). No copy in NLS
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1896; rev. 1895) (Littlejohn Road not shown)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1896; rev. 1895) (Littlejohn Road not shown) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1908; rev. 1907) (Littlejohn Road not shown)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1932; rev. 1930-31) (Littlejohn Road not shown)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1947; rev. 1937-38) (Littlejohn Road shown and labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI (1871; surveyed 1862-68) (Littlejohn Road not shown)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1898; rev. 1895) (Littlejohn Road not shown) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1898; rev. 1895) (Littlejohn Road not shown)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1910; rev. 1907-1908) (Littlejohn Road not shown)
• 6" O.S. map London Sheet T (1919; rev. 1914) (Littlejohn Road not shown)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1938; rev. 1930-1931) (Littlejohn Road not shown)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1944; rev. 1938) (Littlejohn Road shown and labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1945; rev. c. 1938) (Littlejohn Road shown and labelled)
• 6" O.S. map London Sheet T (c. 1946; rev. 1938) (only partly revised) (Littlejohn Road not shown)
• 1:25,000 map TQ46 (1957) (Littlejohn Road shown, not labelled)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 271 (Hills) (1896) (Littlejohn Road not shown)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 271 (Outline) (1896) (Littlejohn Road not shown)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 171 (1946) (Littlejohn Road shown, not labelled)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 171 (1961) (Littlejohn Road shown, not labelled).

Background

• Wikipedia: Orpington Urban District.
• Wikipedia: St Mary Cray.

Also see

• St Mary Cray place-name cluster
• Places named after Little John.

 Kent place-names 

 London place-names 

 Place-names