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, 2018-07-12.

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

• John Bartholomew & Son Ltd. Bartholomew's Reference Atlas of Greater London, Covering the Whole Metropolitan Police Area, with Larger Scale Maps For Central London and Index For Quick Location of Over 62,000 Names (Edinburgh, 1968), 118D (F. Way shown and labelled)
• 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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