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<div class="no-img"><p id="byline">By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-11-09. Revised by {{#realname:{{REVISIONUSER}}}}, {{REVISIONYEAR}}-{{REVISIONMONTH}}-{{REVISIONDAY2}}.</p> | <div class="no-img"><p id="byline">By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-11-09. Revised by {{#realname:{{REVISIONUSER}}}}, {{REVISIONYEAR}}-{{REVISIONMONTH}}-{{REVISIONDAY2}}.</p> | ||
Happy Friar, a Chinese takeaway shop at 2 [[Friar Way (Tunbridge Wells)|Friar Way]], Tunbridge Wells, is no doubt named after the street, which is in turn likely named after Friar Tuck. It is situated in a neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells known as [[Sherwood (Tunbridge Wells)|Sherwood]]. The | Happy Friar, a Chinese takeaway shop at 2 [[Friar Way (Tunbridge Wells)|Friar Way]], Tunbridge Wells, is no doubt named after the street, which is in turn likely named after Friar Tuck. It is situated in a neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells known as [[Sherwood (Tunbridge Wells)|Sherwood]]. The shop, several streets, businesses and facilities there no doubt owe their names to the presence of a [[Robin Hood (Tunbridge Wells)|Robin Hood]] pub at Birken Road. The shop was probably established in this century. | ||
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Happy Friar (Tunbridge Wells).
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Friars Way, Tunbridge Wells / Google Earth Street View.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-11-09. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-11-09.
Happy Friar, a Chinese takeaway shop at 2 Friar Way, Tunbridge Wells, is no doubt named after the street, which is in turn likely named after Friar Tuck. It is situated in a neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells known as Sherwood. The shop, several streets, businesses and facilities there no doubt owe their names to the presence of a Robin Hood pub at Birken Road. The shop was probably established in this century. Template:PnItemQry
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 LX.8 (c. 1873; surveyed 1866). No Copy in NLS
- 25" O.S. map Kent LX.12 (c. 1873; surveyed 1866-68). No Copy in NLS
- 25" O.S. map Kent LX.8 (1897; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Kent LX.8 (1897; rev. 1895)
- 25" O.S. map Kent LX.12 (1897; rev. 1895)
- 25" O.S. map Kent LX.8 (1909; rev. 1907)
- 25" O.S. map Kent LX.12 (1909; rev. 1907)
- 25" O.S. map Kent LX.8 (1941; rev. 1936–37)
- 25" O.S. map Kent LX.12 (1945; rev. 1936–37)
- 6" O.S. map Kent LX (1872; surveyed 1868–69)
- 6" O.S. map Sussex VII (1878; surveyed 1873)
- 6" O.S. map Kent LX.NE (1898; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Kent LX.NE (1898; rev. 1895)
- 6" O.S. map Kent LX.NE (1910; rev. 1907)
- 6" O.S. map Kent LX.NE (c. 1947; rev. 1938)
- 6" O.S. map Kent LX.NE (c. 1951; rev. 1938).
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