Locksley Drive (Knaphill, Woking)

Locality
Coordinates	51.317285, -0.599174
Adm. div.	Surrey
Vicinity	Connecting Robin Hood Road and Lockfield Drive, between Knaphill and St John's, Woking
Type	Thoroughfare
Interest	Miscellaneous
Status	Extant
First Record	?

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Locksley Drive.

Locksley Drive / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-11-20. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-11-20.

A short bit of road which connects Robin Hood Road and Lockfield Drive about midway between Knaphill and St John's, Woking, is named Locksley Drive. As there are several other Robin Hood-related place-names in the vicinity, it seems very likely the name refers to the Robin Hood tradition.

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.

Background

• Wikipedia: Knaphill.

Also see

• Knaphill place-name cluster
• Places named Loxley.

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