Friar Tuck Shop (Chapel St Leonards)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Site of Friar Tuck Shop, immediately S of entrance to Robin Hood Camp (now Golden Palm Resort.
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Site of Friar Tuck Shop / Google Earth Street View.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-05-16. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-05-16.
On the south side of the entrance to the Robin Hood Camp – now the Golden Palm Resort – in Chapel St leonards was a Friar Tuck Shop from at least the 1950s to 1970s.
The shop can be seen on the postcards from 1958 and the 1970s shown in the image gallery below. Immediately South-east of the site is now a Maid Marian Pub.
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
Shop not labelled or indicated on maps.
- 25" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.7 (c. 1889; surveyed c. 1888). No Copy in NLS
- 25" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.7 (1906; rev. 1905) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.7 (1906; rev. 1905)
- 6" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.NE (1907; rev. 1905) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.NE (1888; surveyed 1888)
- 6" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.NE (1907; rev. 1905)
- 6" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.NE (c. 1948; rev. 1938)
- 6" O.S. map Lincolnshire LXXVI.NE (1951; rev. 1946).
Background
Robin Hood Camp with Friar Tuck shop right (?1970s) / Photo Precision Ltd. Robin Hood Camp, Chapel St. Leonards (R102) ([s.l.], [c. 1970]). Photographic postcard (col.). 139 x 89 mm.; private collection.