Robin Hood's Coppice (Arborfield)

Locality
Coordinate	51.383834, -0.910912
Adm. div.	Berkshire
Vicinity	c. 110 m W of Eversley Road (A327); immediately SW of Poperinghe Way
Type	Natural feature
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	1839
A.k.a.	Robin Hood Coppice; Robinhood Copse

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Robin Hood's Coppice, Arborfield

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Robin Hood's Coppice (rectangular area) and Robin Wood Ground (the larger area; contours not exact).

Foot- and bicyclepath in Robin Hood's Coppice, now Robinhood Copse, Arborfield / Richard Peat, 4 Oct. 2014, via Foursquare.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-09-20. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-04-22.

Robinhood Copse, formerly known as Robin Hood's Coppice, is a small wooded area in Arborfield, c. 110 m west of Eversley Road (A327) and immediately southwest of a residential street named Poperinghe Way. The name is first recorded in 1839.

The locality is included, as "Robin Hood's Coppice", on the tithe map for Arborfield (1839). while in the tithe award (1841) it is listed as "Robin Wood Coppice", with Henry Simonds, Esq., as owner/occupier, state of cultivation as "Underwood", and with an area of 2 acres, 3 roods and 14 perches (11482.96 m²). The area is labelled "Robinhood Copse" on O.S. maps published 1876 to c. 1944 (see maps below). An adjacent area was formerly known as Robin Wood Ground.

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-11.

MS sources

• 1839 tithe map for Arborfield parish, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 02, sub-piece 007, Sub-Image 001 (£)
• 1841 tithe award for Arborfield parish, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 02, sub-piece 007, Image 012, Plot No. 286 (£).

Printed and web sources

• Foursquare: Robinhood Copse
• Gelling, Margaret. The Place-Names of Berkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XLIX-LI) (Cambridge, 1973; [s.l.], 1974-76), pt. I, p. 124 (and see p. 123 for parish).

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.5 (c. 1875; surveyed 1871). (No copy in NLS)
• 25" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.5 (c. 1899; rev. c. 1898). (No copy in NLS)
• 25" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.5 (1911; rev. 1910)
• 25" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.5 (1911; rev. 1910) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.5 (1933; rev. 1932)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI (1876; surveyed 1871-72)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.NW (1900; rev. 1899) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.NW (1900; rev. 1899)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.NW (1912; rev. 1910)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.NW (c. 1934; rev. 1932)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.NW (c. 1944; rev. 1938).

Also see

• Arborfield place-name cluster
• Places named Robin Hood's Wood
• Robinhood place-names
• Wood for Hood.

Notes

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  Foot- and bicyclepath in Robin Hood's Coppice, now Robinhood Copse, Arborfield / Richard Peat, 4 Oct. 2014, via Foursquare.

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  Robinhood Copse, as it is now known, is the wooded area behind the house farthest from the camera / Google Earth Street View.

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