Robinhood Lane (Mitcham)

Locality
Coordinates	51.400976, -0.138228
Adm. div.	Surrey
Vicinity	In Mitcham; leading southeast from Manor Road; in area bounded by Manor Road, Sherwood Park Road and Wide Way
Type	Thoroughfare
Interest	Robin Hood-name
Status	Extant
First Record	?

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Robinhood Lane.

Robinhood Lane / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-11-29. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-11-29.

Robinhood Lane in Mitcham leads southwest from Manor Road in an area bounded by the latter, Sherwood Park Road and Wide Way. Northwest of Abbotts Road it is a proper street, but southwest of it passage is blocked by a green iron gate, and beyond the gate the lane becomes a mere dirt track with gardens on its northeast and garages on its southwest side, I am not aware when the lane came into being or came to be named after Robin Hood, but to my untrained eye the houses have a 1950s' look. Several streets in the vicinity have Robin Hood-related names.

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.

Also see

• Robin Hood Lane place-name cluster
• Sutton place-name cluster
• Places named after Sherwood Forest.

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  On Robinhood Lane northwest of Abbotts Road, looking southeast / Google Earth Street View.

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  On Abbotts Road, looking southeast down Robinhood Lane / Google Earth Street View.