Surrey place-names

From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Adm. div.
Full name Surrey
Abbreviation Sy
Coordinate 51.25, -0.416667
Area (1801) 1937.60248 km2[1]
Population (1801) 268233[1]
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Localities named after Robin Hood (or members of his band) in Surrey. 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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Greenwood Road (Mitcham)¤|Locksley Drive (Knaphill, Woking)¤|Marian Court (Sutton)¤|Nottingham Close (St John's, Woking)¤|Nottingham Court (St John's, Woking)¤|Robin Hood Bridge (Kingston-upon-Thames)¤|Robin Hood Close (St John's, Woking)¤|Robin Hood Crescent (Knaphill, Woking)¤|Robin Hood Infants School (Sutton)¤|Robin Hood Junior School (Sutton)¤|Robin Hood Primary School (Kingston-upon-Thames)¤|Robin Hood Roundabout (St John's, Woking)¤|Robin Hood Way (Kingston-upon-Thames) (2)¤|Sherwood Fish and Chips Shop (Mitcham)¤|Sherwood Park Road (Mitcham)¤|Sherwood School (Mitcham)¤|Robinhood Alley (Borough High Street)¤1590|Robin Hood Court (Tooley Street)¤1763|Robin Hood and Little John (Newington Causeway)¤1839|Robin Hood (Camberwell)¤1853|Robin Hood Hotel (Kingston-upon-Thames)¤1855|Robin Hood (Anerley)¤1861|Robin Hood (Sutton)¤1869|Robin Hood Lane (Sutton)¤1871|Robin Hood Lodge (Sutton)¤1871|Sherwood Park Road (Sutton)¤1871|Robin Hood (Knaphill, Woking)¤1873|Robin Hood Gate (Richmond Park)¤1873|Sherwood Lodge (Kingston-upon-Thames)¤1873|Robin Hood Farm (Kingston-upon-Thames)¤1874|Robin Hood Lane (Kingston-upon-Thames)¤1874|Robin Hood Road (Wimbledon)¤1874|Robin Hood (Guildford)¤1878|Robin Hood (Egham)¤1881|Robin Hood (Walworth)¤1881|Robin Hood Road (Knaphill, Woking)¤1900|Robin Hood's Pound (Sutton)¤1900|Robin Hood Roundabout (Kingston-upon-Thames)¤1927|Robinhood Close (Mitcham)¤1936|Robinhood Lane (Mitcham)¤1936|Robin Hood Way (Kingston-upon-Thames) (1)¤1944|Robin Hood and Little John (Camberwell)¤1976|Robin Hood Lane Health Centre (Sutton)¤2001|Robin Hood Works (Knaphill, Woking)¤2013|

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-18. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-05-27.

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County description

The Historic Counties Trust describes Surrey as follows:

Surrey is a relatively small county but heavily populated. The northeast of Surrey lies within the Metropilitan conurbation. In this area are numerous contiguous towns varying socially from the wealthy and exclusive to the more ordinary city neighbourhoods. In this area are Southwark, oppposite the City of London, home of a Cathedral and of much of the broadcast media; Lambeth, home of the Archbishop of Canterbury; Brixton; Wandsworth; and the wealthy towns of Richmond upon Thames and Kingston upon Thames. Richmond Palace, now demolished, was a favourite home of the Tudor monarchs, while Kingston has an older royal claim as the coronation place of several Anglo-Saxon kings. Outside the Metropolis are towns which are themselves often largely commuter towns. Surrey's communter suburbs have become the essence of our understanding of "Suburbia". In the very south of Surrey is Gatwick Airport, a gateway to London, and the consequent swathe of motorway corridor cutting through the farmland to meet the M25. The M25, the London Orbital, is itself an unavoidable feature of the Surrey landscape, with the motorway and all the junctions, slip roads and related equipment slicing through and reshaping the outer suburbs. Further from London the villages become smaller and very pleasant. The North Downs, a range of fine chalk hills and downland, stretch across Surrey from Guildford into Kent. The Downs are a mixture of chalk, meadow and dense woodland. Box Hill provides a fine viewpoint over its sudden southern scarp slope. Further hills lie to the south, beautifully wooded in places. The highest point is Leith Hill, at 965 feet but with a manmade tower added to take it up to above 1,000 feet. The brooks that run in the denes between the hills of Surrey have numerous beautiful villages along them. The major rivers of Surrey are the Thames, which forms its whole northern boundary, the Mole and the Wey. The Mole cuts through the Downs under Box Hill in a beautiful wooded valley. The Wey, further west, has several towns on its banks, including Guildford, the county town. Guildford is a large market town with an attractive high street. Guildford is built in a notch in the hills where the Wey breaks through, and the roads of the county try to force the same gap. On either side the town climbs the slopes, precipitously on occasion. Some miles west, linked to Guildford by the Hog's Back ridge, is Farnham, a town with well-kept Tudor and Georgian buildings and a twelfth century castle once belonging to the Bishops of Winchester.

Main Towns: Battersea, Brixton, Clapham, Croydon, Epsom, Farnham, Gatwick, Guildford, Haselmere, Kington-upon-Thames, Leatherhead, Richmond, Southwark, Wandsworth, Wimbledon, Woking.
Main Rivers: Mole, Wey, Thames, Eden.
Highlights: Richmond Park; Kew Gardens; North Downs; Runnymede; Thorpe Park.
Highest Point: Leith Hill, 294.13 m.
Area: 1963.21 km2.[2]

Chronology

16th Century

1 Robin Hood-related place-name first documented in the 16th century.

18th Century

1 Robin Hood-related place-name first documented in the 18th century.

19th Century

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

20th Century

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

21st Century

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

Miscellaneous

9 Miscellaneous place-names and localities.

All localities

44 Place-names and localities.

Place-name clusters

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

List and gazetteers

Background

Neighbours

Notes