Robin Hood Road (St Mary Cray)

Locality
Coordinate	51.388424, 0.101026
Adm. div.	Kent, now Greater London
Vicinity	Between Poverest Road and Oakdene Road
Type	Thoroughfare
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct
First Record	c. 1944

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'Robin Hood Road', the eastern arm of Robin Hood Green.

'Robin Hood Road', the eastern arm of Robin Hood Green / Google Earth Street View.

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

Robin Hood Road is shown and labelled on a couple of O.S. maps published just after WWII (see Maps section below). Either the road was never built or the name was briefly applied to the eastern arm of Robin Hood Green. A dozen residential streets in St Mary Cray (formerly a parish in Kent, now part of the London Borough of Bromley) have names that are more or less certainly inspired by that of a small wood that existed in this area before urbanization kicked in: Robin Hood Shaw. Robin Hood Road briefly was or would have been one of them. 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), 118 (Robin Hood Road not shown)

• 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) (Robin Hood Road not shown)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1896; rev. 1895) (Robin Hood Road not shown) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1908; rev. 1907) (Robin Hood Road not shown)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1932; rev. 1930-31) (Robin Hood Road not shown)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1947; rev. 1937-38) (Robin Hood Road not shown)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI (1871; surveyed 1862-68) (Robin Hood Road not shown)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1898; rev. 1895) (Robin Hood Road not shown) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1898; rev. 1895) (Robin Hood Road not shown)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1910; rev. 1907-1908) (Robin Hood Road not shown)
• 6" O.S. map London Sheet T (1919; rev. 1914) (Robin Hood Road not shown)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1938; rev. 1930-1931) (Robin Hood Road not shown)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1944; rev. 1938) (Robin Hood Road shown and labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1945; rev. c. 1938) (Robin Hood Road shown and labelled)
• 6" O.S. map London Sheet T (c. 1946; rev. 1938) (only partly revised) (Robin Hood Road not shown)
• 1:25,000 map TQ46 (1957) (Robin Hood Road not shown)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 271 (Hills) (1896) (Robin Hood Road not shown)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 271 (Outline) (1896) (Robin Hood Road not shown)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 171 (1946) (Robin Hood Road shown, not labelled)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 171 (1961) (Robin Hood Road not shown).

Background

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

Also see

• St Mary Cray place-name cluster.

 Kent place-names 

 London place-names 

 Place-names