Happy Friar (Tunbridge Wells)

Locality
Coordinate	51.144786, 0.283996
Adm. div.	Kent
Vicinity	2 Friars Way, Tunbridge Wells
Type	Establishment
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	2016

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Happy Friar (Tunbridge Wells).

Friars Way, Tunbridge Wells / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-11-09. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

Happy Friar, a Chinese takeaway shop at 2 Friars 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, a named which inspired those of this shop and several streets, businesses and facilities, including a Robin Hood pub at Birken Road, in this part of Tunbridge Wells. The shop, or at any rate the company which owns it, was established in 2016. Template:PlaceNamesItemQuery

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.

Sources

• Companies House: Happy Friar Kent Limited.

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).

Background

• Wikipedia: Royal Tunbridge Wells.

Notes

 Kent place-names 

 Place-names