Nottinghamshire place-names

From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Adm. div.
Full name Nottinghamshire
Abbreviation Notts
Coordinate 53.144901, -0.986307
Area (1801) 2128.95404 km2[1]
Population (1801) 140350[1]
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Localities named after Robin Hood (or members of his band) in Nottinghamshire. Click cluster marker for locality markers. Click locality marker for link to page. Historical county boundary co­ordi­nates provided by the Historic Counties Trust.
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Friar Lane (Warsop)¤|Friar's Close (Selston)¤|Little John Avenue (Warsop)¤|Little John Close (New Ollerton)¤|Little John Walk (Nottingham)¤|Maid Marian Avenue (Bilsthorpe Moor)¤|Maid Marian Way (New Ollerton)¤|Maid Marion Avenue (Selston)¤|Maid Marion Drive (Edwinstowe)¤|Maid Marion Rise (Warsop)¤|Robin Hood Avenue (Warsop)¤|Robin Hood Close (Eastwood)¤|Robin Hood Coachworks (Rainworth)¤|Robin Hood Drive (Hucknall)¤|Robin Hood Hire Ltd (Caythorpe)¤|Robin Hood Industrial Estate (Nottingham)¤|Robin Hood Inn (Retford)¤|Robin Hood Plaice (Edwinstowe)¤|Robin Hood Primary School (Nottingham)¤|Robin Hood Primary and Nursery School¤|Robin Hood Road (Arnold)¤|Robin Hood Road (Blidworth)¤|Robin Hood Road (Kirkby in Ashfield)¤|Robin Hood Terrace (Ravenshead)¤|Robin Hood Travel (Hucknall)¤|Robin Hood Way (Nottingham)¤|Robin Hood's Arrows (Robin Hood's Well, Nottingham)¤|Robin Hood's Boots (Robin Hood's Well, Nottingham)¤|Robin Hood's Bottle (Robin Hood's Well, Nottingham)¤|Sheriffs Way (Nottingham)¤|Sherwood Avenue (Blidworth)¤|Sherwood Forest Rotary Club¤|Sherwood Junior School (Warsop)¤|Sherwood Rise (Eastwood)¤|Sherwood Way (Selston)¤|Will Scarlet's Grave (Blidworth)¤|Sherwood Forest¤1401|Nottingham¤1450|Robin Hood's Close (Nottingham)¤1484|Blyth¤1500|Robin Hood's Well (Nottingham)¤1500|Robin Hood's Acre (Nottingham)¤1624|Papplewick (Hucknall)¤1637|Robin Hood's Bow (Robin Hood's Well, Nottingham)¤1751|Robin Hood's Cap (Robin Hood's Well, Nottingham)¤1751|Robin Hood's Chair (Robin Hood's Well, Nottingham)¤1751|Robin Hood (Hockley)¤1761|Robin Hood Close (King's Clipstone)¤1766|Robin Hood's Chair (Kirkby in Ashfield)¤1774|Robin Hood's Hills (Kirkby in Ashfield)¤1774|Major Oak (Sherwood Forest)¤1790|Robin Hood's Stable (Papplewick)¤1790|Robin Hood and Little John (Arnold)¤1796|Robin Hood Pit (Oxton)¤1825|Robin Hood's Cave (Kirkby in Ashfield)¤1825|Robin Hood's Cave (Walesby)¤1825|Fountain Dale (Blidworth)¤1826|Robin Hood Farm (Edwinstowe)¤1826|Robin Hood's Grave (Holbeck)¤1839|Robin Hood Bank (Edwinstowe)¤1841|Robin Hood's Meadow (Perlethorpe)¤1841|Barnsdale Close (Car Colston)¤1843|Robin Hood Hill (Oxton)¤1843|Robin Hood's Well (High Park Wood, Moorgreen)¤1851|Robin Hood Street (Nottingham)¤1861|Mantelpiece (Thoresby Hall)¤1864|Robin Hood Statue (Thoresby Hall)¤1864|Thoresby Hall (Perlethorpe)¤1864|Robin Hood (Kirkby in Ashfield)¤1878|Robin Hood (Cossall)¤1880|Robin Hood Chase (Nottingham)¤1881|Little John Inn (Ravenshead)¤1884|Robin Hood Inn (Rainworth)¤1884|Robin Hood's Larder (Sherwood Forest)¤1884|Sherwood Street (Warsop)¤1884|Friar Tuck's Well (Blidworth)¤1885|Little John Street (Nottingham)¤1885|Robin Hood's Cave (Rock Cemetery, Nottingham)¤1892|Robin Hood (Mansfield Road, Nottingham)¤1898|Robin Hood (Edwinstowe)¤1900|Robin Hood Allotment Gardens (Carlton, Nottingham) (1)¤1900|Robin Hood Avenue (Edwinstowe)¤1900|Robin Hood Terrace (Nottingham)¤1901|Robin Hood (Brinsley)¤1925|Robin Hood Inn (Lambley)¤1925|Robin Hood Arms (Robin Hood Street, Nottingham)¤1941|Little John Drive (Rainworth)¤1946|Robin Hood Allotment Gardens (Carlton, Nottingham) (2)¤1947|Robin Hood Statue (Nottingham Castle)¤1952|Maid Marian Way (Nottingham)¤1963|Nottingham Castle (Nottingham)¤1963|Robin Hood Crossroads (Edwinstowe)¤1980|Robin Hood Way (Nottinghamshire)¤1985|Blidworth (Mansfield)¤1994|Friar Tuck's Hut (Blidworth)¤1994|Robin Hood Way Association (Nottinghamshire)¤1994|Robin Hood Harley-Davidson (Beeston)¤2003|Robin Hood Topiary (Nottingham Castle)¤2004|Friar Tuck (Little John Lakes, New Ollerton)¤2006|Little John Lakes (New Ollerton)¤2006|Maid Marion (Little John Lakes, New Ollerton)¤2006|Robin Hood (Little John Lakes, New Ollerton)¤2006|Friar Tucks Balloons (Warsop)¤2009|Maid Marian House (Nottingham)¤2017|

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-05-27.

Nottinghamshire sports Robin Hood on its flag

Introduction

Gover, Mawer and Stenton note in the English Place-Name Society's volume on Nottinghamshire that

[a]s might be expected in the county of Nottingham references to the Robin Hood story are frequent but none of the names is recorded except in modern maps and documents. We may note Robin Hood's Cave, Chair, Grave, Hill, Stable and Well, Robin Hood Close, Farm and Meadow, Robin Hood Close and Little John, all from the Sherwood and neighbouring districts.[2]

While It is true that most Robin Hood-related place-names in Nottinghamshire are only recorded relatively late, two such name, Robin Hood's Well and Robin Hood's Close were in fact in use already in the early Tudor period.

A systematic search for relevant field names in all Nottinghamshire tithe awards[3] was completed on 3 Oct. 2020. Everything found in the course of this search has a page of its own in this section of IRHB. However, there are still place-names to be added from early Ordnance Survey maps, the English Place-Name Society's volume on Nottinghamshire,[4] Dobson & Taylor's list of Robin Hood-related place-names,[5] tourist guides etc.

County description

The Historic Counties Trust describes Nottinghamshire as follows:

Nottinghamshire stretches from the heart of the Midlands to the edge of Yorkshire. It is an entirely inland county, but low-lying; rarely reaching 600 feet above sea level. The River Trent, the great river of the Midlands, crosses southern Nottinghamshire as a broad stream. The City of Nottingham itself is one of the largest of the Midland towns. At its heart is a mediæval castle on a sandstone hill overlooking and commanding the Trent. The cliffs in and around Nottingham have caves, some man-made; the mediæval inn "The Trip to Jerusalem" is built into a cave, and higher up the Trent there were cave-dwellers into the twentieth century. (In the ninth century Asser said that Nottingham's name in Welsh was Tig Guocobauc: House of Caves.) North of Nottingham is Sherwood Forest, shrunk since the Middle Ages but still with many acres of woodland, particularly around Ollerton. Sherwood is famous as the legendary haunt of Robin Hood. Beyond Sherwood lie the great parks of "the Dukeries"; Clumber, Rufford, Thoresby, and Welbeck. However by this time Nottinghamshire has changed; by Ollerton the coal fields have begun and the county becomes industrialised. Western Nottinghamshire in particular is part of an industrial belt together with eastern Derbyshire. The mines, though much reduced, have created new villages and towns, which stretch in a belt up towards the Yorkshire boundary. The major towns in this part are Mansfield and Worksop "the capital of the Dukeries". The east of the county manages to remain agricultural. Here is found Southwell, home of a Cathedral of great architectural interest. The Fosse Way crosses the south and east of Nottinghamshire, part of its long course from Bath to Lincoln, and remarkably is almost devoid of villages along its route.

Main Towns: Beeston, Blidworth, Eastwood, Edwinstone, Mansfield, Newark on Trent, Nottingham, Retford, Southwell, Worksop.
Main Rivers: Trent, Idle, Maun, Devon.
Highlights: Major Oak, Edwinstone; Robin Hood Hills; Thoresby Hall; Wollaton Hall.
Highest Point: Silverhill, 204.52 m.
Area: 2136.74 km2.[6]

Chronology

15th Century

2 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 15th century.

17th Century

1 Robin Hood-related place-name first documented in the 17th century.

18th Century

6 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 18th century.

19th Century

23 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 19th century.

20th Century

29 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 20th century.

21st Century

11 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 21st century.

Local traditions

4 Localities with local traditions relating to Robin Hood.

Literary locales

5 Literary locales.

Artifacts

11 Robin Hood-related artifacts.

Miscellaneous

6 Miscellaneous place-names and localities.

All localities

104 Place-names and localities.

Place-name clusters

27 Clusters of Robin Hood place-names, localities with local traditions, literary locales etc.

Lists and gazetteers

Guides and other secondary literature

Background

Neighbours

Also see

Notes