Gloucestershire place-names

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Full name Gloucestershire
Abbreviation Glos
Coordinate 51.833333, -2.166667
Area (1801) 3258.1322 km2[1]
Population (1801) 250723[1]
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Localities named after Robin Hood (or members of his band) in Gloucestershire. 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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Marian's Lane (Forest of Dean)¤|Marian's Walk (Forest of Dean)¤|Robin Hood Junction (Forest of Dean)¤|Robin Hood's Hill (Gloucester)¤1542|Little John (Bristol)¤1727|Robin Hood and Little John (St Michael's Hill, Bristol)¤1752|Robin Hood Lane (Bristol)¤1824|Little John Street (Bristol)¤1832|Robin Hood Inn (Coleford)¤1832|Robin Hood (St Michael's Hill, Bristol)¤1848|Robin Hood (Bedminster)¤1869|Marian's Brick Works (Forest of Dean)¤1870|Robin Hood (Gloucester)¤1870|Robin Hood Deep Pit (Forest of Dean)¤1871|Robin Hood Iron Mine (Forest of Dean)¤1871|Robin Hood Land Pit (Forest of Dean)¤1871|Marian's Lodge (Forest of Dean)¤1881|Marian's Inclosure (Forest of Dean)¤1884|Robinhood Street (Gloucester)¤1884|Robin Hood's Retreat (Bristol)¤1890|Robin Hood Inn (Gloucester)¤1908|

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-08-15. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-28.

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County description

The Historic Counties Trust describes Gloucestershire as follows:

Gloucester is a large county stretching, west to east, from the Welsh border to Berkshire and, south to north, from Somerset to Warwickshire. It is split by the Severn on which sits the City of Gloucester. Gloucestershire has three distinct parts. The best known part is the Cotswold Hills, which cover the east of the county, and spread also into Oxfordshire. The Cotswolds are famed for the beauty of their villages and the landscape. The Cotswolds remain a wealthy sheep-farming region. Locally quarried Cotswold stone is used ubiquitously throughout the Cotswolds, producing picture-postcard, honey coloured towns and villages. The Severn Vale by contrast is flat and shaped by the great river. Gloucester though apparantly inland is a port relying on the river, while further north is historic Tewkesbury, on a slight rise in the flat Vale from which it has looked down on the cruel Severn floods. The Severn is dotted with picturesque villages. West of the Severn is the Forest of Dean, reaching out as far as the exquisite Wye valley on the borders of Herefordshire and Monmouthshire. Bristol lies astride the Avon (which forms the border with Somerset). It is the great city of the Southwest, spreading with its suburbs in each direction.

Main Towns: Bristol, Cheltenham, Chipping Campden, Cirencester, Lydney, Nailsworth, Stow-on-the-Wold, Stroud, Tewkesbury.
Main Rivers: Avon, Severn, Windrush, Coln, Leadon, Wye.
Highlights: Badminton; Berkeley Castle; Cabot Tower, Bristol; Cotswolds; Forest of Dean; Source of the Thames; Offa's Dyke.
Highest Point: Cleeve Hill, 330.1 m.
Area: 2913.74 km2.[2]

Chronology

16th Century

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

18th Century

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

19th Century

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

20th Century

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

All localities

21 Place-names and localities.

Place-name clusters

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

Lists and gazetteers

Background

Neighbours

Notes