Little John's Wood (Caddington)

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Little John's Wood, Caddington

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Little John's Wood in the distance, just right of centre / Google Earth Street View.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-09-13. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-09-13.

Little John's Wood, located c. 225 m north of Dunstable Road, about midway between Caddington and central Dunstable, was known under that name by 1880.

Like the later maps listed below, a 25" O.S. map of the area published that year, based on a survey carried out in 1879, includes the wood, labelling it 'Little John's Wood'.[1] It is shown with a roughly rectangular shape, measuring c. 210 x 85 metres, oriented NNW–SSE. At least as late as the mid-20th century, an open area separated Little John's Wood from Dame Ellen's Wood to the north. Now this area is also wooded, so that Little John's and Dame Ellen's woods form a continuously wooded area together with the Cottage Bottom Fields nature reserve immediately to the west.

Given the presence of Dame Ellen's Wood in the vicinity of Little John's Wood we cannot be certain that the latter was named after Robin Hood's lieutenant

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