Loxley (Stratford-upon-Avon)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Loxley.
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Loxley Church on the Hill; view from the public footpath near Loxley Hall / Ian Paterson, 14 May 2008, Creative Commons, via Geograph.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-15. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-12-22.
The village of Loxley, c. 6 km SW of Stratford-upon-Avon, is first recorded as early as 985. The name means "Locc's clearing or wood".[1] Names derived from it in the area include Loxley Hall, Loxley Road, and Loxley Lane.
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
Maps
- 25" O.S. map Warwickshire XLIV.12 (1885; surveyed 1884)
- 25" O.S. map Warwickshire XLIV.12 (1905; rev. 1900) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Warwickshire XLIV.12 (1905; rev. 1900)
- 25" O.S. map Warwickshire XLIV.12 (1914; rev. 1913)
- 25" O.S. map Warwickshire XLV.9 (1905; rev. 1904)
- 25" O.S. map Warwickshire XLV.9 (1886; surveyed 1885)
- 6" O.S. map Warwickshire XLIV.SE (1884; surveyed 1883)
- 6" O.S. map Gloucestershire II.SE (1904; rev. 1900) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Gloucestershire II.SE (1904; rev. 1900)
- 6" O.S. map Gloucestershire II (1922; rev. 1913)
- 6" O.S. map Gloucestershire II.SE (1922; rev. 1913)
- 6" O.S. map Gloucestershire II.SE (c. 1947; rev. 1938).
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