Robin Hood Lane (Poplar)

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Robin Hood Lane, Poplar.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|On Robin Hood Lane / Google Earth Street View.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-28. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-28.

Robin Hood Lane in Poplar is first recorded on Joel Gascoyne's 1703 map of Stepney (see Maps section below).

Gazetteers

• Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 299.

Sources

• Gover, J.E.B.; Mawer, Allen; Stenton, F.M.; Madge, S.J. The Place-Names of Middlesex apart from the City of London (English Place-Name Society, vol. XVIII) (Cambridge, 1942), p. 137.

Maps

• Gascoyne, Joel, cartog.; Harris, John, engr. An Actuall Survey of the Parish of St Dunstan Stepney alias Stebunheath ([London], 1703)
  • Gascoyne, Joel, cartog.; Harris, John, engr. An Actuall Survey of the Parish of St. Dunstan Stepney, Alias Stebunheath: Being One of the Ten Paryshes in the County of Middlesex Adjacent to the City of London ([London], [1994?])
• British Library: Online Gallery; section, including Robin Hood Lane, as an overlay on Google Maps
• Daniel Crouch Rare Books Eastenders; entire map (reduced size).

Background

• Wikipedia: Poplar.