Robinhood (Southminster)

Locality
Coordinate	51.666, 0.8707
Adm. div.	Essex
Vicinity	Southminster; slightly SE of Asheldham; c. 575 m NW of Middlewick Windfarm
Type	Area
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct?
First Record	1842

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Robinhood, Southminster.

Robinhood, Southminster, indicated with a red outline, nearby Robinshood Marsh in Dengie with a yellow dot / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-02-20. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-02-12.

The 1842 tithe award for Southminster includes in its listing for North Wick a plot of land named 'Robinhood', owned by John Faithful Fortescue and occupied by John Kemp, with 'Grass' as state of cultivation and an area of 20 acres, 2 roods and 17 perches (83390.54 m²). Robinhood was situated c. 150 m NW of Robinshood Marsh in Dengie and c. 575 m NW of Middlewick Windfarm I have no evidence to show if the name 'Robinhood' is still in use.

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

• Tithe award for Southminster, online at the Genealogist, Piece 12, Sub-Piece 305, Image 016 (£)
• Accompanying map, online at the Genealogist, Piece 12, Sub-Piece 305, Sub-Image 001 (£).

Printed sources

• Waller, William Chapman, compil. 'Essex Field Names: Part III.—The Hundreds of Rochford, Dengie, and Thurstable', Transactions of the Essex Archæological Society, New Series, vol. VI (1898), pp. 258-77; see pp. 259, 273.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Essex LXIII.7 (c. 1876; surveyed 1873). No copy in NLS
• 25" O.S. map Essex LXIII.7 (1897; rev. 1895)
• 25" O.S. map Essex LXIII.7 (1897; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Essex LXIII.3 (c. 1876; surveyed 1874). No copy in NLS
• 25" O.S. map Essex n LXVI.14 (1922; rev. 1920)
• 6" O.S. map Essex LXIII (1880; surveyed 1873-74)
• 6" O.S. map Essex LXIII.NE (1898; rev. 1895)
• 6" O.S. map Essex LXIII.NE (1898; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Essex nLXVI (1925; rev. 1920).

Background

• Blue Windfarm: Middlewick Wind Farm begins Commercial Operations
• Wikipedia: Southminster.

Also see

• Southminster-Dengie place-name cluster
• Robinhood place-names.

Notes

 Essex place-names 

 Place-names