Sherwood Road (St Mary Cray)

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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.

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

• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (c. 1868; surveyed 1867) (no copy in NLS)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1896; rev. 1895) (Sherwood Road not shown)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1896; rev. 1895) (Sherwood Road not shown) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1908; rev. 1907) (Sherwood Road not shown)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1932; rev. 1930-31) (Sherwood Road not shown)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1947; rev. 1937-38) (Sherwood Road shown and labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI (1871; surveyed 1862-68) (Sherwood Road not shown)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1898; rev. 1895) (Sherwood Road not shown) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1898; rev. 1895) (Sherwood Road not shown)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1910; rev. 1907-1908) (Sherwood Road not shown)
• 6" O.S. map London Sheet T (1919; rev. 1914) (Sherwood Road not shown)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1938; rev. 1930-1931) (Sherwood Road not shown)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1944; rev. 1938) (Sherwood Road shown and labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1945; rev. c. 1938) (Sherwood Road shown and labelled)
• 6" O.S. map London Sheet T (c. 1946; rev. 1938) (only partly revised) (Sherwood Road not shown)
• 1:25,000 map TQ46 (1957) (Sherwood Road shown, not labelled)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 271 (Hills) (1896) (Sherwood Road not shown)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 271 (Outline) (1896) (Sherwood Road not shown)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 171 (1946) (Sherwood Road shown, not labelled)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 171 (1961) (Sherwood Road shown, not labelled).

Background

• Wikipedia: Orpington Urban District.
• Wikipedia: St Mary Cray.

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