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- MINCHIN AND GIBBS. Gloucester from Robin Hood's Hill. Gloucester: MINCHIN AND GIBBS, [s.d.] B/w Picture postcard. 88 x 139 mm. Postmark dated [19]03. Citation ⁃ MINCHIN AND GIBBS. Gloucester from Robin Hood's Hill. Gloucester: MINCHIN AND GIBBS, [s.d. ].839 bytes (104 words) - 20:59, 22 March 2021
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- MINCHIN AND GIBBS. Gloucester from Robin Hood's Hill. Gloucester: MINCHIN AND GIBBS, [s.d.] B/w Picture postcard. 88 x 139 mm. Postmark dated [19]03. Citation ⁃ MINCHIN AND GIBBS. Gloucester from Robin Hood's Hill. Gloucester: MINCHIN AND GIBBS, [s.d. ].839 bytes (104 words) - 20:59, 22 March 2021
- Robin Hood's Hill, now Robin's Wood Hill. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-08-15. Revised by … The prominent tree-covered hill in the parish of Matson, c. 3.3 km SSE of central Gloucester, which used to be known inter alia as 'Robin Hood's Hill', is now officially named Robin's Wood Hill. It is first mentioned in a 1542 act concerning the conduits of Gloucester, '[e]mpowering the Mayor AND Dean of Gloucester to break ground in Matson alias Robin Hood's Hill AND to convey water from the springs there to the city', British Library: An Act concerning the conduits of Gloucester, Empowering the Mayor AND Dean of.., referring to Blakeway, George Sheffield 1924a, pp. 114-15. AND next figures in the 1624 edition of a work by Giraldus Cambrensis, where its name is given as both 'Robinhoodes Hill' AND 'Mattesknoll', Smith, Albert Hugh 1964a, pt. II, p. 168. which latter form is reflected in the (presumably) modern form 'Matson Hill' cited by Dobson & Taylor. Dobson, Richard Barrie …6 KB (879 words) - 20:59, 22 March 2021