Robinshood Marsh (Dengie)

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Robinshood Marsh.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Robinshood Marsh indicated with a red dot / Google Earth Street View.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-02-16. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-02-17.

'Robinshood marsh' is listed as a field-name in the 1839 tithe award schedule for Dengie, Essex, with Captain Henry Fanshaw as landowner, James Malden as occupier, 'Pasture' as state of cultivation, and an area of 10 acres, 2 roods, 4 perches (Template:AcreRoodPerchToM2 m²).

The field, situated immediately NW of Middlewick Windfarm, is easily recognizable since it retains the same shape and size as in the tithe award. As far as I know, the form 'Robinshood' is unique. Is it a mistake for 'Robinhoods'? In view of Robin Hood's connection with May games it is perhaps worth noting that the village immediately south and southeast of Robinshood Marsh is named Mayland.

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.

MS sources

• Tithe award for Dengie, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 12, Sub-Piece 108, Image 006 (requires paid subscription)
• Accompanying map, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 12, Sub-Piece 108, Sub-Image 001 (requires paid subscription).

Printed sources

• Waller, William Chapman, compil. 'Essex Field Names: Part III.—The Hundreds of Rochford, Dengie, and Thurstable', Transactions of the Essex Archæological Society, New Series, vol. VI (1898), pp. 258-77; see pp. 259, 273.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Essex LXIII.7 (c. 1876; surveyed 1873). No copy in NLS.
• 25" O.S. map Essex LXIII.7 (1897; rev. 1895)
• 25" O.S. map Essex LXIII.7 (1897; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Essex LXIII.3 (c. 1876; surveyed 1874). No copy in NLS.
• 25" O.S. map Essex n LXVI.14 (1922; rev. 1920)
• 6" O.S. map Essex LXIII (1880; surveyed 1873-74)
• 6" O.S. map Essex LXIII.NE (1898; rev. 1895)
• 6" O.S. map Essex LXIII.NE (1898; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Essex nLXVI (1925; rev. 1920)

Background

• Blue Windfarm: Middlewick Wind Farm begins Commercial Operations
• Wikipedia: Dengie.

Notes