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{{#display_map:52.963,-1.138|width=34%|enablefullscreen=yes}}<div class="pnMapLegend">The exact location of Robin Hood's Close is not known, but it was near St Ann's Well, formerly known as Robin Hood's Well. I have put the Close close to the Well.</div><div class="no-img">
<p id="byline">By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-10-11. Revised by {{#realname:{{REVISIONUSER}}}}, {{REVISIONYEAR}}-{{REVISIONMONTH}}-{{REVISIONDAY2}}.</p>
Robin Hood's Close was a pasture<ref>{{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, p. 301, ''s.n.'' 'Robin Hood's Close'.</ref> probably situated near St Ann's Well,<ref>{{:Stevenson, William Henry 1882a}}, vol. III, p. 475, ''s.n.'' 'Robynhode Closse'.</ref> which latter was also known as [[Robin Hood's Well (Nottingham)| Robin Hood's Well]]. Robin Hood-related place-names tend to cluster, and an entry in the civic records for 1624 refers to four (unnamed) closes near the well.<ref>{{:Stevenson, William Henry 1882a}}, vol. IV, pp. 385-86.</ref> Very likely one of these was [[Robin Hood's Close (Nottingham)|Robin Hood's Close]]. The 1484-85 record entry cited below refers to work done at both Robin Hood's Close and "&thorn;e Copy", i.e. the Coppice, a locality that was situated ''c.'' 200 m NNE of [[Robin Hood's Well (Nottingham)|Robin Hood's Well]].<ref>See for instance [http://maps.nls.uk/view/115392014#zoom=5&lat=5591&lon=2157&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Nottinghamshire'' XXXVIII.15 (1900; rev. 1899)].</ref> That the Close was located in the immediate vicinity of the Well becomes virtually certain when we note that it was held by one John Selliok in 1499 and a disturbance in 1500 (see records cited below) took place on land "in the holding of John Seliok at Nottingham aforesaid, near Robynhode Well". 

I do not know the exact location, but as coordinates must be provided for this place-name to appear on Google maps, I have chosen a location very close to the well.
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== Gazetteers ==
* {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, p. 301, ''s.n.'' 'Robin Hood's Close'.

== Sources ==
* {{:Gover, John Eric Bruce 1940a}}, pp. 294, 302, 307.
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