Forest Way (St Mary Cray)

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Forest Way.

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By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-25. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-26.

Forest Way is one of a dozen residential streets in St Mary Cray (formerly a parish in Kent, now part of the London Borough of Bromley) whose names were more or less certainly inspired by that of a small wood that existed in this area before urbanization kicked in: Robin Hood Shaw. When Forest Way was planned the area was still wooded in parts, but given several other street names in the vicinity that are obviously Robin Hood-related it seems likely that 'Forest Way' was also meant to fit into this theme. See further the page on the St Mary Cray place-name cluster.

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.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (c. 1868; surveyed 1867) (no copy in NLS)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1896; rev. 1895) (Forest Way not shown)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1896; rev. 1895) (Forest Way not shown) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1908; rev. 1907) (Forest Way not shown)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1932; rev. 1930-31) (Forest Way not shown)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1947; rev. 1937-38) (Forest Way shown and labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI (1871; surveyed 1862-68) (Forest Way not shown)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1898; rev. 1895) (Forest Way not shown) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1898; rev. 1895) (Forest Way not shown)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1910; rev. 1907-1908) (Forest Way not shown)
• 6" O.S. map London Sheet T (1919; rev. 1914) (Forest Way not shown)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1938; rev. 1930-1931) (Forest Way not shown)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1944; rev. 1938) (Forest Way shown and labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1945; rev. c. 1938) (Forest Way shown and labelled)
• 6" O.S. map London Sheet T (c. 1946; rev. 1938) (only partly revised) (Forest Way not shown)
• 1:25,000 map TQ46 (1957) (Forest Way shown, not labelled)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 271 (Hills) (1896) (Forest Way not shown)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 271 (Outline) (1896) (Forest Way not shown)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 171 (1946) (Forest Way shown, not labelled)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 171 (1961) (Forest Way shown, not labelled).

Background

• Wikipedia: Orpington Urban District.
• Wikipedia: St Mary Cray.

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