Robinhood Lane (Mitcham)

Locality
Coordinates	51.400976, -0.138228
Adm. div.	Surrey
Vicinity	Near Pollards Hill 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	1936

Loading map...

{"minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"mappingservice":"leaflet","width":"34%","height":"400px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":false,"defzoom":9,"layers":["OpenStreetMap","NLS","Stamen.Terrain"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","imageLayers":[],"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":51.400976,"lon":-0.138228,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

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 is little more than a rut or footpath between gardens and garages, The earliest reference I have found is a 6" O.S. map published 1936, based on surveying done in 1932 (see Maps section below). 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.

Maps

• 6" O.S. map Surrey XIV (1872; surveyed 1867-68) (R. Lane not shown or labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Surrey XIV.NW (1898; rev. 1894-95) (R. Lane not shown or labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Surrey XIV.NW (1898; rev. 1894-95) (R. Lane not shown or labelled) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Surrey XIV.NW (1914; rev. 1910-11) (R. Lane not shown or labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Surrey XIV.NW (1936; rev. 1932) (R. Lane shown and labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Surrey XIV.NW (c. 1944; rev. 1938) (R. Lane shown and labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Surrey XIV.NW (1946; rev. 1938) (R. Lane shown and labelled)

Also see

• Robin Hood Lane place-name cluster
• Mitcham place-name cluster
• Robinhood place names.

• 

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

• 

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