Little John's Mead (Upminster)

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Little John's Mead, Hacton, Upminster.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Little John's Mead (red outline) and its larger neighbour, Robin Hood (yellow outline) / Google Earth Street View.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-02-19. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-02-19.

The 1842 tithe award for Upminster lists 'Little John's Mead' as the name of a close on the southeast side of Little Gaynes Lane in Hacton, Upminster. Its owner/occupier is listed as the Reverend M. Battiscombe, its state of cultivation as 'Pasture', its area as 1 acre, 3 roods and 26 perches (Template:AcreRoodPerchToM2 m²). The field immediately east of Little John's Mead was named Robin Hood.

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.

MS sources

• Tithe award for Barking, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 12, Sub-Piece 356, Image 013 (requires paid subscription)
• Accompanying map, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 12, Sub-Piece 356, Sub-Image 001 (requires paid subscription).

Printed sources

• Waller, William Chapman, compil. 'Essex Field Names: Part II.—The Hundreds of Beacontree, Chafford, and Barstable, with the Liberty of Havering', Transactions of the Essex Archæological Society, New Series, vol. VI (1898), pp. 60-84; see pp. 62, 73.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Essex LXXV.5 (1897; rev. 1895)
• 25" O.S. map Essex LXXV.5 (1897; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Essex LXXV.NW (1898; rev. 1895)
• 6" O.S. map Essex LXXV.NW (1898; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Essex nLXXXVII.NE (1921; rev. 1915)
• 6" O.S. map Essex nLXXXVII.NE (c. 1945; rev. 1938)
• 1:25,000 O.S. map TQ58 (1959; surveyed 1938-55) (georeferenced)
• 1:1 million–1:10k (1900s) (georeferenced).

Background

• Wikipedia: Upminster.

Notes

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  Little John's Mead (red outline) and its larger neighbour, Robin Hood (yellow outline) / Google Earth Street View.

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  These two houses on the SE side of Little Gaynes Lane stand in the NW end of the former Little John's Mead.

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