Robin Hood Green (St Mary Cray)
Locality | |
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Coordinate | 51.388358, 0.100278 |
Adm. div. | Kent, now Greater London |
Vicinity | Between Friar Road and Oakdene Road; S. of Powerest Road |
Type | Thoroughfare |
Interest | Robin Hood name |
Status | Extant |
First Record | c. 1944 |
A.k.a. | Robinhood Green |
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-25. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.
Robin Hood Green is a U-shaped street around a U-shaped lawn. Its centrepoint is a little southeast of that of Robin Hood Shaw, a similarly shaped, slightly larger wooded area, which together with adjacent areas had been developed, by the end of WWII, into a neighbourhood of residential streets that tend to have Robin Hood-themed names.
The right 'arm' of this U-shaped street was originally (meant to be) named Robin Hood Road and is labelled thus on O.S. maps of the immediate post-WWII period. Subsequent low-resolution maps show Robin Hood Green in its modern shape, and presumably its present name stems from that period.
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.
Sources
Maps
John Bartholomew & Son Ltd. Bartholomew's Reference Atlas of Greater London, Covering the Whole Metropolitan Police Area, with Larger Scale Maps For Central London and Index For Quick Location of Over 62,000 Names (Edinburgh, 1968), 118E (Robin Hood Green shown and labelled)
- 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) (Robin Hood Green not shown)
- 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1896; rev. 1895) (Robin Hood Green not shown) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1908; rev. 1907) (Robin Hood Green not shown)
- 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1932; rev. 1930-31) (Robin Hood Green not shown)
- 6" O.S. map Kent XVI (1871; surveyed 1862-68) (Robin Hood Green not shown)
- 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1898; rev. 1895) (Robin Hood Green not shown) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1898; rev. 1895) (Robin Hood Green not shown)
- 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1910; rev. 1907-1908) (Robin Hood Green not shown)
- 6" O.S. map London Sheet T (1919; rev. 1914) (Robin Hood Green not shown)
- 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1938; rev. 1930-1931) (Robin Hood Green not shown)
- 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1944; rev. 1938) (Robin Hood Green not shown)
- 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1945; rev. c. 1938) (Robin Hood Green not shown)
- 6" O.S. map London Sheet T (c. 1946; rev. 1938) (only partly revised) (Robin Hood Green not shown)
- 1:25,000 map TQ46 (1957) (Robin Hood Green shown, not labelled)
- 1" O.S. map Sheet 271 (Hills) (1896) (Robin Hood Green not shown)
- 1" O.S. map Sheet 271 (Outline) (1896) (Robin Hood Green not shown)
- 1" O.S. map Sheet 171 (1946) (Robin Hood Green shown, not labelled)
- 1" O.S. map Sheet 171 (1961) (Robin Hood Green shown, not labelled).
Background
Also see