Robin Hood Chase (Nottingham)

Locality
Coordinates	52.963043, -1.138849
Adm. div.	Nottinghamshire
Vicinity	In Nottingham
Type	Thoroughfare
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	1885

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Robin Hood's Chase, a path in Nottingham.

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Anonymous. Robin Hood's Chase, Nottingham. [s.l.]: [s.n.], [s.d.] Picture postcard (col.) 138 x 89 mm. (private collection.)

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Anonymous. Robin Hood's Chase, Woodborough Rd., Nottingham. [s.l.]: [s.n.], [s.d.]. Picture postcard (col.) 139 x 87 mm. (private collection.) This shows the entry at the Woodborough Road end.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-05-24. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-06-09.

Robin Hood's Chase is a path in Nottinghams connecting, to the north-west, Woodnborough Road and, to the south-east, St Anne's Well Road. Currently my earliest source for this place-name is a 6" O.S. map of Nottingham published in 1885 and surveyed in 1880-81.

Images

• St Ann's Well Road Pre-demolition (1970) (Facebook Online Community).

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.

Maps

• 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XLII.NW (incl. Nottingham; West Bridgford) (1885, surveyed 1880-81)]
• 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XLII.NW (incl. Nottingham; West Bridgford) (1901, surveyed 1899.)] (Robin Hood's Chase appears in the map, but without legend)
• 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XLII.NW (incl. Nottingham; West Bridgford) (1920, rev. 1919.)] (Robin Hood's Chase indicated in the margin)
• 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XLII.NW (incl. Nottingham; West Bridgford) (c.1947, surveyed 1938.)] (Robin Hood's Chase indicated in the margin.)

Postcards

• Anonymous. Robin Hood's Chase, Woodborough Rd., Nottingham ([s.l.]: [s.n.], [s.d.]). Picture post­card (col.). 139 x 87 mm.
• Anonymous. Robin Hood's Chase, Nottingham. [s.l.]: [s.n.], [s.d.]. Picture post­card (col.) 138 x 89 mm

Also see

• Nottingham place-name cluster
• Robin Hood's Chase place-name cluster.

Notes

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