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Locality
Coordinate	52.954783, -1.158109
Adm. div.	Nottinghamshire
Vicinity	In Nottinghamshire
Type	Settlement
Interest	Literary locale
Status	Extant
First Record	c. 1450

Latest revision as of 13:51, 7 January 2021

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Nottingham.

Nottingham skyline from Sneinton / John Sutton, 6 May 2016, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

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

Nottingham, the hometown of the sheriff, is the (or a) locale in the vast majority of Robin Hood ballads, beginning with Robin Hood and the Monk (c. 1450). First recorded as "Snotengaham" in A.D. 895, the accepted etymology of "Nottingham" is "[t]he ham [homestead] of the people of Snot",^[1] the latter being a man's name.

Allusions

1638 - Braithwaite, Richard - Barnabee's Journal (1)

[Latin text:]
Veni Nottingam, tyrones
Sherwoodenses sunt Latrones,
Instar Robin Hood & Servi
Scarlet, & Johannes Parvi;
Passim, sparsim peculantur,
Cellis, Sylvis deprædantur.

[English text:]
Thence to Nottingam, where rovers
High-way riders, Sherwood drovers,
Like old Robin-Hood, and Scarlet,
Or like Little John his varlet;
Here and there they shew them doughty,
Cells and Woods to get their booty.^[2]

Nottingham in the ballads

Date	Source	Nottingham	Sheriff of Nottingham
c. 1500	Gest of Robyn Hode	Sts. 178:3, 205:1. 289:1, 325:1, 332:3, 337:3, 344:1, 354:1, 365:2, 369:3, 370:3, 380:1, 384:3, 422:3, 423:3, 427:1.	Sts. 15:3, 146:3, 282:3, 313:3, 317:3, 329:3.

Gazetteers

Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 300-301.

Sources

Gover, J.E.B.; Mawer, Allen; Stenton, F.M. The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire (English Place-Name Society, vol. XVII) (Cambridge, 1940), p. 13.

Maps

Also see

Notes

↑ Gover, J.E.B.; Mawer, Allen; Stenton, F.M. The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire (English Place-Name Society, vol. XVII) (Cambridge, 1940), p. 13. IRHB's brackets. Italics and bold type as in source
↑ Braithwaite, Richard; Haslewood, Joseph, ed. Barnabæ Itinerarium, or Barnabee's Journal (London, 1820), vol. II, pp. 38-39.

Image gallery

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Nottingham skyline from Sneinton / John Sutton, 6 May 2016, Creative Commons, via Geograph.
Dennis, E T W. Nottingham (67) (Scarborough, [19??]). Multiview photographic postcard (col.). 149 x 105 mm. / HTN collection.
Reflections of a Bygone Age; O'Brien, Michael, illus. Historic Nottingham (Nottingham Heritage, No. 2) (Keyworth, Nottingham, [s.d.]) / HTN collection.

Nottinghamshire place-names

Place-names

[1] Gover, J.E.B.; Mawer, Allen; Stenton, F.M. The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire (English Place-Name Society, vol. XVII) (Cambridge, 1940), p. 13. IRHB's brackets. Italics and bold type as in source

[2] Braithwaite, Richard; Haslewood, Joseph, ed. Barnabæ Itinerarium, or Barnabee's Journal (London, 1820), vol. II, pp. 38-39.

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+! Sheriff of Nottingham
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+| ''c.''&nbsp;1500
+| ''[[Gest of Robyn Hode]]''
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+|style="width:30%;"|Sts. 15:3, 146:3, 282:3, 313:3, 317:3, 329:3.
+|-
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 == Gazetteers ==
 * {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, pp. 300-301.
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 * [http://maps.nls.uk/view/101603262 6" O.S. map ''Nottinghamshire'' XLII.NW (1920; rev. 1919)]
 * [http://maps.nls.uk/view/101603259 6" O.S. map ''Nottinghamshire'' XLII.NW (''c.'' 1947; rev. 1938)].
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