Little John's Close (Peterborough)

Locality
Coordinate	52.577389, -0.294718
Adm. div.	Northamptonshire
Vicinity	In Bretton, off Bretton Way
Type	Thoroughfare
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record

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Little John's Close

Little John's Close, Bretton, Peterborough / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-10-18. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

A small street in a residential area in Bretton, Peterborough. There is a Robin Hood Close (not Robin Hood's Close) in the neighbourhood.

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
• Not included in Gover, J.E.B.; Mawer, A.; Stenton, F.M. The Place-Names of Northamptonshire (English Place-Name Society, vol. X) (Cambridge, 1933).

Also see

• Bretton place-name cluster
• Places named after Little John.

Northamptonshire place-names 

 Place-names