Gurth Avenue (Kirk Sandall)

Locality
Coordinate	53.553657, -1.062451
Adm. div.	West Riding of Yorkshire
Vicinity	Just S of Thorne Road (A18) in Kirk Sandall
Type	Thoroughfare
Interest	Miscellaneous
Status	Extant
First Record

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Gurth Avenue, Kirk Sandall.

Gurth Avenue, Kirk Sandall / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-06-18. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.

Gurth Avenue is one of a cluster of eleven, mainly residential, streets with Robin Hood/Ivanhoe-themed names in Kirk Sandall. The houses on Gurth Avenue look fairly recent, so the street is probably of 20th century origin. In Ivanhoe, Gurth is a swineherd to Cedric the Saxon, the father of Wilfred of Ivanhoe.

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

• 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CCLXXVII.7 (1892; surveyed 1891)
• 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CCLXXVII.7 (1892; surveyed 1891)
• 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CCLXXVII.7 (1906; rev. 1904) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CCLXXVII.7 (1930; rev. 1929)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCLXXVII.NE (1907; rev. 1904) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire 277 (1854; surveyed 1849–50)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCLXXVII.NE (1907; rev. 1904)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCLXXVII.NE (1931; rev. 1928–29)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCLXXVII.NE (1949; rev. 1948).

Background

• Wikipedia: Kirk Sandall
• Ivanhoe: Characters (Sparknotes).

Also see

• Kirk Sandall place-name cluster
• Doncaster place-name cluster
• Places named after Ivanhoe
• Scott, Walter - Ivanhoe.

 West Riding of Yorkshire place-names 

 Yorkshire place-names 

 Place-names