Loxley (Stratford-upon-Avon)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Loxley.
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Loxley Church on the Hill; view from the public footpath near Loxley Hall / Ian Paterson, 14 May 2008, Creative Commons, via Geograph.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-15. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-18.
The village of Loxley, c. 6 km SW of Stratford-upon-Avon, is first recorded as early as 985. The name means "Locc's clearing or wood".[1]
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- 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.
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