Friars Avenue (Walderslade)

Locality
Coordinate	51.335431, 0.523342
Adm. div.	Kent
Vicinity	Side street of Forest Drive, south of Robin Hood Lane (Lower), Walderslade, Chatham
Type	Thoroughfare
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record

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Friars Avenue (Walderslade).

Friars Avenue / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-01-10. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

Friars Avenue is a residential side street of Forest Drive south of Robin Hood Lane (Lower) in Walderslade, Chatham. In view of its proximity to Little John Avenue and other streets with Robin Hood-related names there can be little doubt that the name refers to Friar Tuck.

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.

Also see

• Walderslade place-name cluster
• Places named after Friar Tuck.

 Kent place-names 

 Place-names