Robin Hood Lane (Poplar)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
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).[1] Since 1966 it has been home to a controversial 'brutalist' concrete housing project absurdly named Robin Hood Gardens, which is now at long last being torn down.
Gazetteers
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, and p. xx for source reference.
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)
- 25" O.S. map Essex LXXXVI.9 (1916; rev. 1914) (georeferenced
- 6" O.S. map London VIII.SW (1894-96; rev. 1893-94)
- 6" O.S. map 'Kent' I.NE (1899; rev. 1893-94) (georeferenced
Background
Notes
- ↑ Also noted in 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, and p. xx for source reference.