Ivanhoe House (Smisby)

Locality
Coordinate	52.768072, -1.483332
Adm. div.	Leicestershire
Vicinity	Main Street, Smisby, c. 800 m north of Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Type	Building
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record

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Ivanhoe House.

Ivanhoe House, Main Street, Smisby / Google Earth.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-08. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

Ivanhoe House on Smisby Main Street is the home of Ivanhoe Equestrian, formerly a riding school, now offering horse training facilities for hire.

A house in Cliftonthorpe, less than one km from Smisby, was known as Ivanhoe House in the late 19th century.

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.

Sources

• Zoopla: Property details for Ivanhoe House, Main Street, Smisby, Ashby-De-La-Zouch LE65 2TY.

Maps

Ivanhoe House is indicated without a legend on these maps of the area.

• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire LXI.NW (1902; rev. 1889)
• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire LXI.NW (1904; rev. 1899)
• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire LXI.NW (1904; rev. 1899) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire LXI.NW (1925; rev. 1920).

Background

• Ivanhoe Equestrian's website.
• Ivanhoe Equestrian's Facebook page.

Also see

• Ashby-de-la-Zouch place-name cluster
• Ivanhoe House (Smisby) place-name cluster
• Places named after Ivanhoe
• Ivanhoe House (Cliftonthorpe)
• Scott, Walter - Ivanhoe.

 Leicestershire place-names 

 Place-names