Papplewick (Hucknall)

Locality
Coordinate	53.052266, -1.183722
Adm. div.	Nottinghamshire
Vicinity	c. 700 m NE of Hucknall
Type	Settlement
Interest	Literary locale
Status	Extant
First Record	c. 1637?

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Papplewick.

Papplewick seems rather too idyllic for witches / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-22. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

Ben Jonson's Sad Shepherd (c. 1637?) includes in its list of dramatis personae "Maudlin, the envious, the Witch of Papplewick". According to the Wikipedia article on this locality, "A local legend dictates that the body of Alan-a-Dale, one of Robin Hood's men, was buried in Papplewick", while according to Dobson & Taylor, St James Church in Papplewick was "[a]llegedly the church at which Allen a Dale was married with the assistance of Robin Hood", a tradition which they think almost certainly "originates from the appearance of the witch of Papplewick in Ben Jonson's The Sad Shepherd".

Gazetteers

• Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 302, s.n. Papplewick.

Sources

• Jonson, Ben; Adams, Robert Martin, ed. Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques (New York and London, ©1979), p. 275. Maudlin figures in Act II, scenes 1-3 and 6; Act III, scene 5.
  • Jonson, Ben; Adams, Robert Martin, ed. Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques (New York and London, ©1979). Later printing of preceding.

Maps

• 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXXIII.NW (1884; surveyed 1878-83)
• 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXXIII.NW (1900; rev. 1899)
• 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXXIII.NW (1900; rev. 1899) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXXIII.NW (1920; rev. 1913).

Background

• Gover, J.E.B.; Mawer, Allen; Stenton, F.M. The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire (English Place-Name Society, vol. XVII) (Cambridge, 1940), p. 130
• Nottingham Wayfarers' Rambling Club; Price, Roland, introd. The Robin Hood Walks: A Comprehensive Guide to Walks in Robin Hood Country including the Third Edition of the Guide to the Full Route of Nottinghamshire's First Recreational Footpath, The Robin Hood Way (Leicester: Cordee, ©1994), p.37
• Wikipedia: Ben Jonson
• Wikipedia: Papplewick.

Named after Papplewick

• Papplewick Close (Tuckswood, Norwich)

Also see

• Jonson, Benjamin - Sad Shepherd
• Robin Hood and Allen a Dale.

Notes

 Nottinghamshire place-names 

 Place-names