Sherwood Road (St Mary Cray): Difference between revisions

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Sherwood Road.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|'Sherwood Road', i.e. Poverest Road / Google Earth Street View.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-26. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-26.

'Sherwood Road' was the intended name, or perhaps for a few years the actual name, of the modern Poverest Road, which is found labelled with this name on at least three large-scale O.S. maps published during the years c. 1944 – 1947. One of these shows the road as projected, two as actually existing (see Maps section below). The fairly straight Powerest Road follows the general course of a previously existing much more winding road of the same name. In view of the presence of streets with Robin Hood-related names in the immediate vicinity it seems likely that the name 'Sherwood Road' was also inspired by the Robin Hood tradition. See further the place-names listed on the page on the St Mary Cray place-name cluster.

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-[[File:{{#var:Pnimage}}|thumb|right|500px|Sherwood Road / Google Earth Street View.]]
+[[File:{{#var:Pnimage}}|thumb|right|500px|'Sherwood Road', ''i.e.'' Poverest Road / Google Earth Street View.]]
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-Sherwood Road is one of a dozen residential streets in St Mary Cray (formerly a parish in Kent, now part of the London Borough of Bromley) whose names were more or less certainly inspired by that of a small wood that existed in this area before urbanization kicked in: [[Robin Hood Shaw (St Mary Cray)|Robin Hood Shaw]]. The Middle English 'e' in the first element of the name 'Sherwood Road' and the presence of other Robin Hood-related names in the immediate vicinity leave no doubt that this place-name is indeed meant to suggest a Robin Hood connection. See further the page on the [[St Mary Cray place-name cluster]].
+'Sherwood Road' was the intended name, or perhaps for a few years the actual name, of the modern Poverest Road, which is found labelled with this name on at least three large-scale O.S. maps published during the years ''c.'' 1944 &ndash; 1947. One of these shows the road as projected, two as actually existing (see Maps section below). The fairly straight Powerest Road follows the general course of a previously existing much more winding road of the same name. In view of the presence of streets with Robin Hood-related names in the immediate vicinity it seems likely that the name 'Sherwood Road' was also inspired by the Robin Hood tradition. See further the place-names listed on the page on the [[St Mary Cray place-name cluster]].
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