Place-names

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Localities named after Robin Hood (or members of his band) in England. Click cluster marker for locality markers. Click locality marker for link to locality page. Historic county boundary coordinates provided by the Historic Counties Trust.

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English counties with Robin Hood-related localities. Click marker for link. Historic county boundary coordinates provided by the Historic Counties Trust.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-08. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-06-02.

International place-names

For international and British place-names see the following pages:

Introduction

This page lists, and provides data summaries of, Robin Hood-related place-names in England. Under place-names are included localities certainly or possibly named after Robin Hood or subsidiary characters of the tradition, localities or areas with local traditions relating to Robin Hood or subsidiary characters, and localities that are mentioned or figure as locale in (mainly) early sources. The amount of detail provided varies considerably. For Robin Hood-related place-names in evidence in the Medieval or early modern period I generally provide more information (if available) than for toponyms that have (likely) arisen more recently. The vast majority of Robin Hood-related names for public houses are first documented in the 19th century or later, while the majority of Robin Hood names for thoroughfares have arisen during the 20th (or 21st) century. Place-names not belonging to these categories are more likely to date back to the early modern period, though here also many are of 19th or 20th century origin.

Counties and shires

The list includes separate entries for London and the historic ridings of Yorkshire. If a county or shire is not found on the list, there are currently no pages on IRHB dealing with place-names or localities in the administrative division in question.

Chronology

14th century

2 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 14th century.

15th century

6 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 15th century.

16th century

11 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 16th century.

17th century

28 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 17th century.

18th century

71 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 18th century.

19th century

396 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 19th century.

20th century

141 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 20th century.

21st century

35 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 21st century.

Unknown century

0 Robin Hood-related place-names whose first century of occurrence in the records is unknown. The vast majority of these are no doubt of 19th to 21st century origin.

Local traditions

1 Localities with local traditions relating to Robin Hood.

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Literary locales

0 Literary locales etc.

Artifacts

21 Artifacts, including statuary, reliefs, Robin Hood and Little John relics etc.

Miscellaneous

87 Miscellaneous place-names and localities.

All localities

983 English place-names and localities.

Place-name clusters

182 Clusters of Robin Hood place-names, localities with local traditions, literary locales etc.

Special groupings

Gazetteers

Gazetteers and lists of Robin Hood-related localities. These all focus on English place-names.

List of gazetteers.

Discussion

The sources on the list all discuss or analyze more than one single locality. Sources discussing specific localities are found under the locality in question. This list again has a distinct focus on England as there has been very little discussion or analysis of non-English Robin Hood place-names.

Sources discussing place-names

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