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* [http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=51.5482&lon=0.2360&layers=175&b=1 1:1 million–1:10k (1900s)] (georeferenced). | * [http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=51.5482&lon=0.2360&layers=175&b=1 1:1 million–1:10k (1900s)] (georeferenced). | ||
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upminster Wikipedia: Upminster.] | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upminster Wikipedia: Upminster.] | ||
Revision as of 14:49, 12 July 2018
Robin Hood (Upminster).
Robin Hood (red outline) and its smaller neighbour, Little John's Mead (yellow outline) / Google Earth Street View.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-02-19. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-12.
The 1842 tithe award for Upminster lists 'Robin Hood' as the name of a close on the southeast side of Little Gaynes Lane in Hacton, Upminster. Its owner is listed as Thomas Agar, occupier as Henry Jostin, area as 9 acres, 3 roods and 6 perches (Template:AcreRoodPerchToM2 m2).[1] Immediately west of Robin Hood was Little John's Mead.
Gazetteers
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.
MS sources
- Tithe award for Upminster, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 12, Sub-Piece 356, Image 006 (requires paid subscription)
- Accompanying map, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 12, Sub-Piece 356, Sub-Image 001 (requires paid subscription).
Printed sources
Maps
'Robin Hood' not labelled.
- 25" O.S. map Essex LXXV.5 (1897; rev. 1895)
- 25" O.S. map Essex LXXV.5 (1897; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Essex LXXV.NW (1898; rev. 1895)
- 6" O.S. map Essex LXXV.NW (1898; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Essex nLXXXVII.NE (1921; rev. 1915)
- 6" O.S. map Essex nLXXXVII.NE (c. 1945; rev. 1938)
- 1:25,000 O.S. map TQ58 (1959; surveyed 1938-55) (georeferenced)
- 1:1 million–1:10k (1900s) (georeferenced).
Background
Notes
- ↑ Tithe award for Upminster, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 12, Sub-Piece 356, Image 006 (requires paid subscription); Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 12, Sub-Piece 356, Sub-Image 001; map (requires paid subscription). Waller, William Chapman, compil. 'Essex Field Names: Part II.—The Hundreds of Beacontree, Chafford, and Barstable, with the Liberty of Havering', Transactions of the Essex Archæological Society, New Series, vol. VI (1898), pp. 60-84; see pp. 62, 79.
Robin Hood (red outline) and its smaller neighbour, Little John's Mead (yellow outline) / Google Earth Street View.
Looking SE at the NW end of Robin Hood from Little Gaynes Lane.
