Barnesdale Crescent (St Mary Cray)
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Barnesdale Crescent / Google Earth Street View.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-25. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-04-05.
Barnesdale Crescent 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. The Middle English 'e' in the first element of the name 'Barnesdale Crescent' 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. Template:PnItemQry
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
- 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 (B. Crescent 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) (Barnesdale Crescent not shown)
- 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1896; rev. 1895) (Barnesdale Crescent not shown) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1908; rev. 1907) (Barnesdale Crescent not shown)
- 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1932; rev. 1930-31) (Barnesdale Crescent not shown)
- 25" O.S. map Kent XVI.3 (1947; rev. 1937-38) (Barnesdale Crescent shown and labelled)
- 6" O.S. map Kent XVI (1871; surveyed 1862-68) (Barnesdale Crescent not shown)
- 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1898; rev. 1895) (Barnesdale Crescent not shown) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1898; rev. 1895) (Barnesdale Crescent not shown)
- 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (1910; rev. 1907-1908) (Barnesdale Crescent not shown)
- 6" O.S. map London Sheet T (1919; rev. 1914) (Barnesdale Crescent not shown)
- 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1938; rev. 1930-1931) (Barnesdale Crescent not shown)
- 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1944; rev. 1938) (Barnesdale Crescent shown and labelled)
- 6" O.S. map Kent XVI.NE (c. 1945; rev. c. 1938) (Barnesdale Crescent shown and labelled)
- 6" O.S. map London Sheet T (c. 1946; rev. 1938) (only partly revised) (Barnesdale Crescent not shown)
- 1:25,000 map TQ46 (1957) (Barnesdale Crescent shown, not labelled)
- 1" O.S. map Sheet 271 (Hills) (1896) (Barnesdale Crescent not shown)
- 1" O.S. map Sheet 271 (Outline) (1896) (Barnesdale Crescent not shown)
- 1" O.S. map Sheet 171 (1946) (Barnesdale Crescent shown, not labelled)
- 1" O.S. map Sheet 171 (1961) (Barnesdale Crescent shown, not labelled).