Little Johns (Margaretting)
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Little Johns, Margaretting (red outline), / Google Earth Street View.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-02-21. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-02-21.
The 1837 tithe award for Margaretting lists 'Little Johns' as the name of a close on the east side of the A414 (Three Mile Hill), c. 1 km NE of Margaretting. Its owner/occupier is listed as George Straight, its state of cultivation as 'Ara[ble].', its area as 1 acre, 3 roods and 14 perches (Template:AcreRoodPerchToM2 m2).[1]
Gazetteers
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976); see pp. 293-311.
MS sources
- Tithe award for Margaretting, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 12, Sub-Piece 222, Image 17 (requires paid subscription)
- Accompanying map, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 12, Sub-Piece 222, Sub-Image 001 (requires paid subscription).
Printed sources
Maps
Little Johns not labelled.
- 25" O.S. map Essex LII.15 (1896; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Essex LII.SE (1896; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
- 1:1 million-1:10k (1900s) (georeferenced)
- Chelmsford (Outline), Sheet 241 (1896; rev. 1893) (georeferenced)
- Chelmsford (Hills), Sheet 241 (1896; rev. 1893) (georeferenced)
- [http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15&lat=51.6997&lon=0.4367&layers=156&b=1 1/2" Bartholomew, Sheet 26, Essex (1903) (georeferenced)
- [http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15&lat=51.6996&lon=0.4360&layers=192&b=1 1/2" Bartholomew, Sheet 16, Essex (1943) (georeferenced)
- 1" O:S. map London.NE (1960; 1954-60) (georeferenced).
Background
Notes
- ↑ Tithe award for Margaretting, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 12, Sub-Piece 222, Image 17 (requires paid subscription); Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 12, Sub-Piece 222, Sub-Image 001; map (requires paid subscription). Waller, William Chapman, compil. 'Essex Field Names: Part VIII.—The Hundred of Chelmsford', Transactions of the Essex Archæological Society, New Series, vol. IX (1903), pp. 156-179; see pp. 157, 170.
Lane leading to Hoo Hall. The sunlit section of the fence in the distance is at the northern perimeter of the area that is or was known as Little John Meadow / Robert Edwards, 20 Oct. 2006, Creative Commons, via Geograph.