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By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2015-08-17. Revised by … The author R.M. Gilchrist, writing in 1913, noted that Geranium robertianum was known by the outlaw's name in several English counties. Gilchrist, Robert Murray 1913a, p. 24. The plant, which has the alternative Latin name of Robertiella robertiana, is also known under the folk-names 'death come quickly', 'storksbill', 'dove's foot', 'crow's foot', 'Robert Geranium', 'red Robin', and 'herb Robert', the latter clearly being the most common. Was it simply the element 'Robert'/'Robin' in two of the most common folk-names for this plant that led to the adoption of the alternative name of 'Robin Hood'? Geranium robertianum is an annual or biennial plant, up to 50 cm high, that produces small pink five-petalled flowers (8-14 mm in diameter) from April to autumn. Its stems are often reddish, and its leaves also turn red at the end of the flowering season. It is common throughout Britain and Ireland in woodland, hedgerows, scree and in …

Brize Norton where RobinHoods Close was located. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-02-13. Revised by … 'RobinHoods Close' figures as a Brize Norton field name in a 1777 enclosure award. Margaret Gelling makes an interesting suggestion with regard to its etymology, noting that "RobinHood is used in dialect of several plants". Gelling, Margaret 1953a, pt. II, p. 308, and see p. 306 for the township, I, p. xxxiv for the MS source. Italics as in Gelling. 'RobinHood' or 'Robin Hood' is known to have been used as a folk name for Silene dioica (first recorded 1847; a.k.a. 'red campion'), Geranium robertianum (1913; a.k.a. 'storksbill', 'death come quickly' etc.) and Lychnis flos-cuculi (1913; a.k.a. 'Ragged-Robin') (see section 'Also see' below). The suggested etymology would imply that the plant name was in use nearly 80 years before the first certain record, which may of course well have been the case. As one would expect, field names inspired by local vegetation are very common. Thus …

'Robin Hood' was (part of) the name or description of four plots of land in Royston. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-15-11. Revised by … Robin Hood occurs as a field name or characterization of no less than four plots of land in the 1845 MS tithe … form one continuous area, while the fourth, entered separately at IRHB as Robin Hood (Royston, Barnsley) (1), is situated slightly north-west of them, the distance between it and the nearest 'Robin Hood' plot being no more than c. 35 m. The three connected plots, here treated as one area in view of their common name, and the adjacent fourth plot are best discussed together. The details … earliest 25" O.S. maps (for which see below), are as follows: Plot No. 158. name and Description of Lands and Premises: 'Humple & Robin Hood'. …

Short introduction We hope that this wiki will in due course come to live up to its somewhat grand name. It is called 'International' because in addition to the vast amount of … secondary literature, children's fiction, literature on foreign analogues of Robin Hood etc. Arguably 'Bibliography' is a misnomer as the site already includes a … aspect is in all cases taken quite seriously, and there is already a wiki named the Robin Hood Wiki, so another name had to be found for the site. Latest news NEW subsite: IRHB Editions, … tithe awards for the following English counties have now been searched for Robin Hood-related place names: …