Locksley Close (Boston)

Locality
Coordinate	52.986054, -0.031228
Adm. div.	Lincolnshire
Vicinity	Boston
Type	Thoroughfare
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record

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Locksley Close.

Looking west down Locksley Close from Robin Hood's Walk / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

Friar Way, Greenwood Drive, Locksley Close, Marian Road, Sheriff Way and Sherwood Avenue were all obviously inspired by the presence in this immediate are of a residential street named Robin Hood's Walk, which itself goes back at least as far as 1640.

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.

Also see

• Robin Hood's Walk place-name cluster
• Boston place-name cluster
• Places named Loxley.

 Lincolnshire place-names 

 Place-names