Robin Hood Court (Bow Lane)

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The site of Robin Hood Court, Bow Lane.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|The site of Robin Hood Court is today a busy intersection. Queen Victoria Street, Cannon Street and Bow Lane cross one another here / Google Earth Street View.]]

Robin Hood Court is labelled "Robinwoods C" on John Rocque's map of London and Westminster (1746) / Locating London's Past.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-06-23. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-05-17.

"Robin Hood Court" was the name of a cul-de-sac located at what is today the intersection of Queen Victoria Street, Cannon Street and Bow lane. First recorded in 1728, it must have owed its name to the presence of a pub named the Robin Hood there[1].

Henry Harben's earliest reference to Robin Hood Court is Ogilby and Morgan's Large and Accurate Map of the City of London (1677), but scans of this map available on the web (see Maps section below) do not include the name of the street.[2] Robin Hood Court running west out of Bow Lane is listed in a register entitled A New Review of London (1728) as "Robin hood's court [...] in bow lane".[3] It is included on John Rocque's 1746 map of London and Westminster where it is labelled "Robinwoods C[ourt]" (see Maps section and map detail below). John Lockie lists it in his Topography of London (1810) as "Robinhood-Court, Bow-Lane, Cheapside,—at 19, about that number of doors on the R. from Cheapside" (see Gazetteers below). It is also included in a list of localities in the Compleat Compting House Companion (1763).[4] See further Gazetteers below. It disappeared when Queen Victoria Street and the western extension of Cannon Street were constructed.[1] Template:PnItemQry

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