Hood Avenue (St Mary Cray

Locality
Coordinate	51.38969, 0.107212
Adm. div.	Kent, now Greater London
Vicinity	Between Stanley Way and Poverest Road
Type	Thoroughfare
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	c. 1944

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Hood Avenue.

Hood Avenue / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-25. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

Hood Avenue runs between Powerest Road and Stanley Way, a little northeast of an area that was once wooded and known as Robin Hood Shaw but is now full of residential streets with Robin Hood-related names. Given its proximity to these it is natural to assume that Hood is Robin Hood. In the immediate vicinity of Hood Avenue we find Marion Crescent and May Avenue. See further the place-names listed on 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), 118E (Hood Avenue 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) (Hood Avenue not shown)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1896; rev. 1895) (Hood Avenue not shown) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1908; rev. 1907) (Hood Avenue not shown)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1932; rev. 1930-31) (Hood Avenue not shown)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1947; rev. 1937-38) (Hood Avenue shown and labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI (1871; surveyed 1862-68) (Hood Avenue not shown)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1898; rev. 1895) (Hood Avenue not shown) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1898; rev. 1895) (Hood Avenue not shown)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1910; rev. 1907-1908) (Hood Avenue not shown)
• 6" O.S. map London Sheet T (1919; rev. 1914) (Hood Avenue not shown)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1938; rev. 1930-1931) (Hood Avenue not shown)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1944; rev. 1938) (Hood Avenue shown and labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1945; rev. c. 1938) (Hood Avenue shown and labelled)
• 6" O.S. map London Sheet T (c. 1946; rev. 1938) (only partly revised) (Hood Avenue not shown)
• 1:25,000 map TQ46 (1957) (Hood Avenue shown, not labelled)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 271 (Hills) (1896) (Hood Avenue not shown)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 271 (Outline) (1896) (Hood Avenue shown, not labelled)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 171 (1946) (Hood Avenue shown, not labelled)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 171 (1961) (Hood Avenue shown, not labelled).

Background

• Wikipedia: Orpington Urban District.
• Wikipedia: St Mary Cray.

Also see

• St Mary Cray place-name cluster.

 Kent place-names 

 London place-names 

 Place-names