Robinhood Lane (Mitcham)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Robinhood Lane.
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Robinhood Lane / Google Earth Street View.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-11-29. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-18.
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
- place-name cluster
- [[]].