Robin Hood's Meadow (Perlethorpe)

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Robin Hood's Meadow (Perlethorpe).

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|View of Robin Hood's Meadow from Robin Hood's Cave / Jonathan Thacker, 3 Oct. 2018, 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.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-10-02. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-10-02.

Robin Hood's Meadow in Perlethorpe is situated immediately west of the Maun (here known as Whitewater), 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]

The stretch of River Maun running through this area is known as Whitewater. Along most of the eastern boundary of Robin Hood's Meadow it is separated from the river by a narrow belt of trees. 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

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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).

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Notes

  1. Wikipedia: Earl Manvers; Wikipedia: Charles Pierrepont, Viscount Newark
  2. 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).


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