Little John Meadow (Rivenhall)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Little John Meadow, Rivenhall.
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Little John's Meadow, Rivenhall (red outline), / Google Earth Street View.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-02-20. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-02-20.
The 1838 tithe award for Rivenhall lists 'Little John Meadow' as the name of a close east of Oak Roadon and north of the railroad tracks in Rivenhall. Its owner/occupier is listed as George Clapham, Esq., its state of cultivation as 'Pasture', its area as 7 acres, 1 rood and 33 perches (Template:AcreRoodPerchToM2 m2).[1]
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 Rivenhall, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 12, Sub-Piece 280, Image 010 (requires paid subscription)
- Accompanying map, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 12, Sub-Piece 280, Sub-Image 001 (requires paid subscription).
Printed sources
Maps
Little John's Mead not labelled.
- 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
Notes
- ↑ Tithe award for Rivenhall, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 12, Sub-Piece 280, Image 010 (requires paid subscription); Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 12, Piece 12, Sub-Piece 280, Sub-Image 001; map (requires paid subscription). 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.
Little John's Mead (red outline) and its larger neighbour, Robin Hood (yellow outline) / Google Earth Street View.