Robin Hood Close (Peterborough)

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Approximate location of Robin Hood Close Close

Robin Hood Close Close, Bretton, Peterborough (photo: Google Earth).

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-10-18. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-05.

A small street in a residential area in Bretton, Peterborough. There is a Little John's Close (not Little John Close) in the neighbourhood.

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
• Not included in Gover, J.E.B.; Mawer, A.; Stenton, F.M. The Place-Names of Northamptonshire (English Place-Name Society, vol. X) (Cambridge, 1933).

Also see

• Bretton place-name cluster
• Places named Robin Hood's Close.