Robin Hood's Coppice (Arborfield)

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Robin Hood's Coppice, Arborfield

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Robin Hood's Coppice and Robin Hood Ground (the larger area), Arborfield.

[[File:|thumb|right|380px|Foot- and bicyclepath in Robin Hood's Coppice, now Robinhood Copse, Arborfield / Richard Peat, 4 Oct. 2014, via Foursquare.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-09-20. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-09-20.

Robinhood Copse, formerly known as Robin Hood's Coppice, is a small wooded area in Arborfield, c. 110 m west of Eversley Road and immediately southwest of a residential street named Poperinghe Way. The name is recorded as early as 1839.

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Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 315-19.

MS sources

• 1839 tithe map for Arborfield parish, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, piece 02, sub-piece 007, sub-image 001 (requires paid subscription)
• 1841 tithe award for Arborfield parish, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, piece 02, sub-piece 007, image 012 (requires paid subscription).

Printed sources

• Gelling, Margaret. The Place-Names of Berkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XLIX-LI) (Cambridge, 1973; [s.l.], 1974-76), pt. I, p. 124 (and see p. 123 for parish).

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.5 (c. 1875; surveyed 1871). (No Copy in NLS)
• 25" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.5 (c. 1899; rev. c. 1898). (No Copy in NLS)
• 25" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.5 (1911; rev. 1910)
• 25" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.5 (1911; rev. 1910) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.5 (1933; rev. 1932)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI (1876; surveyed 1871-72)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.NW (1900; rev. 1899) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.NW (1900; rev. 1899)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.NW (1912; rev. 1910)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.NW (c. 1934; rev. 1932)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XLVI.NW (c. 1944; rev. 1938).

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  Foot- and bicyclepath in Robin Hood's Coppice, now Robinhood Copse, Arborfield / Richard Peat, 4 Oct. 2014, via Foursquare.

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  Robinhood Copse, as it is now known, is the wooded area behind the house farthest from the camera / Google Earth Street View.

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