Little Johns (Blackmore)

Locality
Coordinate	51.685, 0.3275
Adm. div.	Essex
Vicinity	Immediately west of Fryerning Wood
Type	Area
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct?
First Record	1845

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Little Johns, Blackmore.

Little Johns, Blackmore (red outline), / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-02-20. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

The 1845 tithe award for Blackmore lists 'Little Johns' as the name of a close immediately west of Fryerning Wood. Its owner is listed as Thomas John Mattham, occupier as William Lawrence, state of cultivation as 'Pasture', area as 3 acres, state of cultivation as 'Pas[ture]', 2 roods and 1 perches (Template:AcreRoodPerchToM2 m²).Template:PlaceNamesItemQuery

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 Blackmore, online at the Genealogist, Piece 12, Sub-Piece 039, Image 017 (subscription required)
• Accompanying map, online at the Genealogist, Piece 12, Sub-Piece 039, Sub-Image 001 (subscription required).

Printed sources

• Waller, William Chapman, compil. 'Essex Field Names: Part VIII.—The Hundred of Chelmsford', Transactions of the Essex Archæological Society, New Series, vol. IX (1903), pp. 156-179; see pp. 157, 170.

Maps

Little Johns not labelled.

• 25" O.S. map Essex LIX.4 (1897; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Essex LIX (1881; surveyed 1871-73)
• 6" O.S. map Essex LIX.NE (1898; rev. 1895)
• 6" O.S. map Essex LIX.NE (1898; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Essex nLXII (1923; rev. 1915-18)
• 1:25,000 O.S. map TL60 (1958; surveyed 1938-55) (georeferenced)
• 1:1 million–1:10k (1900s) (georeferenced).

Background

• Wikipedia: Blackmore.

Notes

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  The Little Johns (red outline) / Google Earth Street View.

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  A peep into the (former?) Little Johns / Google Earth Street View.