Robin Hood's Coppice (Arborfield)
[[File:|thumb|right|380px|Foot- and bicyclepath in Robin Hood's Coppice, now Robinhood Copse, Arborfield / Richard Peat, 4 Oct. 2014, via Foursquare.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-09-20. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-05-07.
The locality is included, as "Robin Hood's Coppice", on the tithe map for Arborfield (1839).[1] while in the tithe award (1841) it is listed as "Robin Wood Coppice", with Henry Simonds, Esq., as owner/occupier, state of cultivation as "Underwood", and with an area of 2 acres, 3 roods and 14 perches (Template:AcreRoodPerchToM2 m2).[2] The area is labelled "Robinhood Copse" on O.S. maps published 1876 to c. 1944 (see maps below). An adjacent area was formerly known as Robin Wood Ground.Template:PnItemQry
Gazetteers
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-11.
MS sources =
- 1839 tithe map for Arborfield parish, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, piece 02, sub-piece 007, sub-image 001 (subscription required)
- 1841 tithe award for Arborfield parish, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, piece 02, sub-piece 007, image 012, Plot No. 286 (subscription required).
Printed and web sources
- Foursquare: Robinhood Copse
- Gelling, Margaret. The Place-Names of Berkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XLIX-LI) (Cambridge, 1973; [s.l.], 1974-76), pt. I, p. 124 (and see p. 123 for parish).
Maps
- 25" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.5 (c. 1875; surveyed 1871). (No Copy in NLS)
- 25" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.5 (c. 1899; rev. c. 1898). (No Copy in NLS)
- 25" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.5 (1911; rev. 1910)
- 25" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.5 (1911; rev. 1910) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.5 (1933; rev. 1932)
- 6" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI (1876; surveyed 1871-72)
- 6" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.NW (1900; rev. 1899) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.NW (1900; rev. 1899)
- 6" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.NW (1912; rev. 1910)
- 6" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.NW (c. 1934; rev. 1932)
- 6" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.NW (c. 1944; rev. 1938).
Notes
- ↑ 1839 tithe map for Arborfield parish, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, piece 02, sub-piece 007, sub-image 001 (subscription required). Gelling, Margaret. The Place-Names of Berkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XLIX-LI) (Cambridge, 1973; [s.l.], 1974-76), pt. I, p. 124 (and see p. 123 for parish),
- ↑ 1841 tithe award for Arborfield parish, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, piece 02, sub-piece 007, image 012, Plot No. 286 (subscription required).
Foot- and bicyclepath in Robin Hood's Coppice, now Robinhood Copse, Arborfield / Richard Peat, 4 Oct. 2014, via Foursquare.