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By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-01-12. Revised by … Robin Hood place-names, localities with local traditions, literary locales etc. in or near , :

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-12-22. Revised by … Robin Hood place-names, localities with local traditions, literary locales etc. in or near , :

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-02. Revised by … The authors of the English Place-Name Society volume on Wiltshire, published 1939, note "Robinhood butts" as a field or minor name occurring already in 1649: butte, ME (n) is fairly common in the plural form as in Buttes (1220), Shorte and Longe buttes (1289), Brode-, Letelbuttes (1393). It usually has reference to strips of land abutting on a boundary, often at right angles to the other ridges in the field, but in such a name as Robinhood butts (1649), it clearly has reference to the village archery butts. Gover, John Eric Bruce 1939a, p. 426. Italic and bold type as used there. Unfortunately there is no hint where "Robinhood butts" were located, and no source is cited. Moreover, I doubt very much whether this place-name "clearly has reference to the village archery butts". As illustrated by the lack of localisation and source attribution of this reference, the English Place-Name Society, established in 1923, English …

Robin Hood Ball. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-02. Revised by … The first certain record of Robin Hood Ball near Netheravon is Andrews's and Dury's 1773 map of Wiltshire, where it occurs as 'Robin Wood Ball'. Andrews, John 1773a, sheet [5]. … Which monument? According to the English Place-Name Society's volume on Wiltshire, the ME place-name element balle (n.) (ModE …