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Robin Hood Park, Keene. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-06-20. Revised by …

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-07-11. Revised by … Canada Robin Hood place-names in Canada listed by province. Alberta British Columbia Newfoundland and Labrador Ontario USA Robin Hood place-names in the … Maine Maine place-name clusters Maryland Massachusetts New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico North Carolina North Carolina place-name clusters Ohio Pennsylvania Texas Washington

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-19. Revised by … County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Hampshire as follows: A seaborne county and a landward county, a rural and an urban county, Hampshire looks in two directions. The south coast of Hampshire, on the English Channel, looks to the sea. Southampton is Britain's greatest … eastward of it Portsmouth is the home of the Royal Navy. Other ports line the Hampshire coast, and indeed from the head of Southampton Water to the edge of Sussex … a self-reliant island (and once a separate Jutish kingdom) but a part of Hampshire nevertheless. Queen Victoria fell in love with the island and stayed frequently at Osborne …

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-02. Revised by … County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Wiltshire as follows: Wiltshire is a downland rural county of the West Country. In the south of the county is Salisbury and in the north is Swindown. Between the two lies the great expanse of Salisbury Plain. Southern Wiltshire is known for pretty towns and villages. It is a wealthy agricultural land. In its middle is the City of Salisbury. Salisbury was a mediæval "New town", built around an ornate cathedral; the cathedral with the highest spire in Britain. The cathedral close, in which are the most exclusive houses in town, is renowned. The origin of the city is found on a hill to the north; Old Sarum, a city since the iron age, now abandoned. North of Salisbury is Salisbury Plain, some 300 square miles of uncultivated chalkland. Much of the Plain is used by the army for training. The Plain is home to Stonehenge, and many ancient burial mounds and manmade features …

Bishop's Waltham. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-10-22. Revised by … Allusion Source notes Note asterisk: "Comment. Book IV, ch. 17". IRHB comments This is an expanded paraphrase of 1790 - Hookham, Thomas - Tour of the Isle of Wight. Whether or not Bishop's Waltham was in fact as dreadful and utterly insignificant as Hookham and his anonymous paraphrast thought, one would perhaps not expect Thomas Bourn to have found a place for it in his Gazetteer of the Most Remarkable Places in the World (1807 and later). Yet he did, and he says little on Waltham's picturesque ruins, much on its picaresque past. Bourn, Thomas 1822a, s.n. "Waltham or Bishop's Waltham"; probably also in the first (1807) and second (1815) editions, which I have not seen. See further Robin Hood's Dell (Bishop's Waltham). Lists ⁃ Not included in Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a, pp. 293-11. ⁃ Outside scope of Sussex, Lucy 1994a. Sources ⁃ Anonymous 1792a Background ⁃ …

Pubs named the Green Man (Beds. to Dorset; Essex to Yorks. to follow). By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2015-07-17. Revised by … 'The Green Man' is a quite common pub or inn name in England, while the name of 'The Green Man and Still' is now much less common than it used to be. Public houses with these names usually have (or had) a sign showing a green-clad figure – now often hard to distinguish from a typical depiction of Robin Hood – or a "green man" Wikipedia: Green Man. head. These pub names and signs were not originally connected with the Robin Hood figure, though in some cases they have later come to be. Since their connection with the outlaw is only tangential, they are not given separate entries on this site. However, I include below a county-by-county list of map and literature references for such pub names found during my search for Robin Hood-related place-names, the sources being the 6" O.S. map online at NLS, Pub History, and London Pubology and many others. …