Friar Tuck Shop (Chapel St Leonards)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Site of Friar Tuck Shop, immediately S of entrance to Robin Hood Camp (now Golden Palm Resort.
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Site of Friar Tuck Shop / Google Earth Street View.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-05-16. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-05-16.
On the south side of the entrance to the Robin Hood Camp – now the Golden Palm Resort – in Chapel St leonards was a Friar Tuck Shop from at least the 1950s to 1970s.
The shop can be seen on the postcards from 1958 and the 1970s shown in the image gallery below.
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
Shop not labelled or indicated on maps.
- 25" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.7 (c. 1889; surveyed c. 1888). No Copy in NLS
- 25" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.7 (1906; rev. 1905) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.7 (1906; rev. 1905)
- 6" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.NE (1907; rev. 1905) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.NE (1888; surveyed 1888)
- 6" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.NE (1907; rev. 1905)
- 6" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.NE (c. 1948; rev. 1938)
- 6" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.NE (1951; rev. 1946).
Background
Robin Hood Camp with Friar Tuck shop right (?1970s) / Photo Precision Ltd. Robin Hood Camp, Chapel St. Leonards (R102) ([s.l.], [c. 1970]). Photographic postcard (col.). 139 x 89 mm.; private collection.