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Maid Marian Way.

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By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-05-05. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-05-05.

Planned in the years after WWII and constructed during the early 1960s, Maid Marian Way is a two-lane highway running through a central area of Nottingham.

In late 1945, Nottingham city council decided that a new road was needed to handle the steadily increasing volume of traffic passing through the centre of the city. The construction of Maid Marian Way was decided against the wish of many citizens by a council that ignored the opinion of at least one expert as well as criticism from the county history society, The Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, which declared the project an “antiquarian calamity”. A public vote in 1946 with a turnout of little more than 7 per cent failed to stop the project. After years of heated debate and strenuous protests, construction began in 1963. Several Medieval streets and many old houses had to give way for Maid Marian Way, and the result in places resembles Eastern Bloc architecture of the post-WWII era. Within a couple of years it had been dubbed 'the ugliest street in Europe'.^[1]

I am aware of just two major city planning and architecture disasters with Robin Hood-related names: the Nottingham's brutal Maid Marian Way and the brutalist Robin Hood Gardens in Poplar. The latter is now finally being demolished.

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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.

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↑ Smart, Andy. 'A Look Back at the History of Maid Marian Way - "Europe's Ugliest Street"', Nottingham Post (2018-02-11).

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[1] Smart, Andy. 'A Look Back at the History of Maid Marian Way - "Europe's Ugliest Street"', Nottingham Post (2018-02-11).

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 Planned in the years after WWII and constructed during the early 1960s, Maid Marian Way is a two-lane highway running through a central area of Nottingham.
-In late 1945, Nottingham city council decided that a new road was needed to handle the steadily increasing volume of traffic passing through the centre of the city. The construction of Maid Marian Way was decided against the wish of many citizens by a council that ignored the opinion of at least one expert and criticism from the county history society, The Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, which declared that the project would constitute an “antiquarian calamity”. After years of heated debate and strenuous protests, construction began in 1963
+In late 1945, Nottingham city council decided that a new road was needed to handle the steadily increasing volume of traffic passing through the centre of the city. The construction of Maid Marian Way was decided against the wish of many citizens by a council that ignored the opinion of at least one expert as well as criticism from the county history society, The Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, which declared the project an “antiquarian calamity”. A public vote in 1946 with a turnout of little more than 7 per cent failed to stop the project. After years of heated debate and strenuous protests, construction began in 1963. Several Medieval streets and many old houses had to give way for Maid Marian Way, and the result in places resembles Eastern Bloc architecture of the post-WWII era. Within a couple of years it had been dubbed 'the ugliest street in Europe'.<ref>[https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/history/look-back-history-maid-marian-1198903 Smart, Andy. 'A Look Back at the History of Maid Marian Way - "Europe's Ugliest Street"', ''Nottingham Post'' (2018-02-11).]</ref>
+I am aware of just two major city planning and architecture disasters with Robin Hood-related names: the Nottingham's brutal Maid Marian Way and the brutalist [[Robin Hood Gardens (Poplar)| Robin Hood Gardens in Poplar]]. The latter is now finally being demolished.
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