Robin Hood's Meadow (Perlethorpe)
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|On the edge of Robin Hood's Meadow by the Maun / Stephen Ostler, 25 Jan. 2020, Creative Commons, via Geograph.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-10-02. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-10-02.
Robin Hood's Meadow in Perlethorpe is situated on the west bank of the Maun, opposite Robin Hood's Cave. It is first recorded in 1841.
The first known record of this field name is the 1841 tithe award of Perlethorpe and Edwinstowe, in which it is listed as two contiguous plots, both belonging to 'The Earl Manvers', i.e. Charles Pierrepont, Viscount Newark (1805–50),[1] whose seat was (the preceding incarnation of) Thoresby Hall. The occupier of both plots was a William Pickin, state of cultivation was 'Meadow', the area of the two plots being 14 acres and 24 perches, respectively 9 acres and 14 perches, yielding a total area of (Template:AcreRoodPerchToM2 m2).[2]
Robin Hood's Cave across the small river being presumably (once or still?) a more conspicuous feature, it was in all probability the name of the latter which suggested that of the former rather than vice versa. Template:PnItemQry
Gazetteers
- Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 303, s,n, Robin Hood's Meadow
- Field, John; compil. English Field Names: a Dictionary (Newton Abbot, ©1972), p. 183.
MS sources
- 1841 tithe award for Perlethorpe, Edwinstowe, online at the Genealogist.com, piece 26, sub-piece 097, image 471, #137, #141 (subscription required)
- accompanying map, online at the Genealogist.com, piece 26, sub-piece 97, sub-image 001, #137, #141 (subscription required).
Maps
- 25" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XIX.6 (1885; surveyed 1884)
- 25" O.s. map Nottinghamshire XIX.6 (c. 1899; rev. c. 1897-98). No Copy in NLS
- 25" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XIX.6 (1920; rev. 1915) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XIX.6 (1920; rev. 1915)
- 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XIX.NW (1900; rev. 1897–98) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XIX.NW (1884; surveyed 1883–84)
- 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XIX.NW (1900; rev. 1897–98)
- 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XIX.NW (1921; rev. 1915)
- 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XIX.NW (1900; rev. 1897–98) (georeferenced).
Background
Notes
- ↑ Wikipedia: Earl Manvers; Wikipedia: Charles Pierrepont, Viscount Newark
- ↑ 1841 tithe award for Perlethorpe, Edwinstowe, online at the Genealogist.com, piece 26, sub-piece 097, image 471, #137, #141 (subscription required); accompanying map, online at the Genealogist.com, piece 26, sub-piece 97, sub-image 001, #137, #141 (subscription required).
On the edge of Robin Hood's Meadow by the Maun / Stephen Ostler, 25 Jan. 2020, Creative Commons, via Geograph.
Robin Hood's Meadow indicated in gray / Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland; Creative Commons; adapted by Henrik Thiil Nielsen.