Robin Hood Court (Tooley Street)

Locality
Coordinate	51.505418, -0.083056
Adm. div.	Surrey, now Greater London
Vicinity	English Grounds, SE from Battle Bridge Lane, NE from Tooley Street
Type	Thoroughfare
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct
First Record	1763

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Robin Hood Court (Tooley Street).

English Grounds, just north of Tooley Street, is the site of Robin Hood Court / Google Earth Street View.

John Rocque's 1746 map of London and Westminster centred on "Robin Woods C[ourt]" / Locating London's Past.

Richard Horwood's Plan of London (1792-99) centred on "Robin Hood Co[urt]" / Romantic London.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-06-24. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.

A Robin Hood Court once existed at what is now English Grounds on the east side of Battle Bridge Lane on the Thames side of Tooley Street. It is first recorded on John Rocque's map of London and Westminster (1746).

Rocque labels the locality "Robin Woods C[ourt]" (see map detail below). It appears to have been inadvertently included twice in the long list of London street and place-names in the Compleat Compting-House Companion (1763). On checking the maps, the Companion's "Robin Hood court, Tooley street, Southwark" turns out to be identical with its "Robin Hood court, near Morgan's lane", for during the time Battle Bridge was known under the more peaceful-sounding name of Mill Lane, Morgan's Lane was the next side street of Tooley Street towards the east. The same double entry is found in the New Complete Guide (1783). This of course assumes that there is not somewhere in London yet another Robin Hood Court near another Morgan's Lane. Lockie in his Topography of London (1810) lists the the locality as "Robinhood-Court, Mill-Lane, Tooley-Street,—the second on the R. a few doors from 55, Tooley-st."

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

Sources

• Anonymous. The Compleat Compting-House Companion: or, Young Merchant, or Tradesman's Sure Guide (London, 1763), pp. 417 s.n. Robin Hood court [4], 418 s.n. Robin Hood court [1]
• Anonymous, compil. The New Complete Guide to all Persons who have any Trade or Concern with the City of London, and Parts adjacent ([s.l], 1783), s.nn. Robin Hood's court [4], Robin Hood's court [8]
• Elmes, James, compil. A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs (London, 1831), p. 354 s.n. Robinhood-Ct.
• Lockie, John, compil. Lockie's Topography of London, Giving a Concise Local Description of and Accurate Direction to Every Square, Street, Lane, Court, Dock, Wharf, Inn, Public Office, &c. in the Metropolis and its Environs (London, 1810), s.n. Robinhood-Court [7]
  • Lockie, John, compil. Lockie's Topography of London, Giving a Concise Local Description of, and Accurate Direction to, Every Square, Street, Lane, Court, Dock, Wharf, Inn, Public Office, &c. in the Metropolis and its Environs. Second Edition (London, 1813), s.n. Robinhood-Court [7]

Maps

• Horwood, John. Plan of London and Westminster. Online at: Romantic London
• Rocque, John, cartog.; Pine, John, engr. A Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark (London, 1746). Online at: Locating London's Past
• 25" O.S. map London (First Editions c1850s) XLV (1878; surveyed 1872)
• 25" O.S. map London (Edition of 1894-96) LXXVII (1897; rev. 1893-94)
• 25" O.S. map London (1915- Numbered sheets) V.15 (1934; rev. 1914)
• 25" O.S. map London (Edition of 1894-96) LXXVII (1897; rev. 1893-94) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Middlesex XVII (1880-82; surveyed 1868-73)
• 6" O.S. map Surrey III (1880; surveyed 1868-73)
• 6" O.S. map London VII.SE (1894-96; rev. 1893-94)
• 6" O.S. map Surrey III.NW (1898; rev. 1893-95)
• 6" O.S. map Surrey III.NW (1898; rev. 1893-95) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map London Sheet K (1920; rev. 1913-14)
• 6" O.S. map London Sheet K (c. 1946; rev. 1938).

Also see

• Robinhood place-names
• Wood for Hood.

Notes

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  English Grounds, just north of Tooley Street, is the site of Robin Hood Court / Google Earth Street View.

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  John Rocque's 1746 map of London and Westminster centred on "Robin Woods C[ourt]" / Locating London's Past.

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  Richard Horwood's Plan of London (1792-99) centred on "Robin Hood Co[urt]" / Romantic London.

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