Robin Hood Court (Milton Street)

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The site of Robin Hood Court.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|The Robin Hood Court at this site was recent history in 1720 / Google earth Street View.]]

John Rocque's map of London and Westminster (1746), centred on 'Haberdashers Square', which according to John Strype (1720) "was made out of two old ones, viz. Paviers Court, and Robin Hood Court" / Locating London's Past.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-06-26. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-17.

Robin Hood Court was located in the area immediately north of Silk Street and west of Milton Street, where now a large law firm has its headquarters.

John Strype wrote in 1720 (see Allusions below) about "Haberdashers Square, very genteel, with new well built Houses. The Court is square, and inclosed in with Palisade Pales, except a handsome passage to the Houses round about; and in the midst is a Dial". He continued: " This Court was made out of two old ones, viz. Paviers Court, and Robin Hood Court". Haberdashers' Square was situated a few tens of meters west of the long vanished Grub Street from which it was reached via a short alley that looks relatively narrow on John Rocque's 1746 map of London and Westminster (see map detail below). The point where this alley led west from Grub street seems to be very close to the entrance to the underground parking lot of the law firm.

Henry Harben's earliest reference to Robin Hood Court is Ogilby and Morgan's Large and Accurate Map of the City of London (1677), but scans of this map available on the web (see Maps section below) do not include the name of the street.[1] Strype is the earliest source IRHB can verify, and he makes it clear that Robin Hood Court was already (recent) history when he wrote in 1720. Robin Hood Court is listed in several 18th century directories and address lists (see Gazetteers below), While one can of course not rule out the possibility that the name lingered after the court was gone, it seems most likely that the name simply lived on in the directories through uncritical borrowing from earlier compilations. Lockie's Topography (editions of 1810 and 1813) was based on first-hand knowledge, and it does not include this particular Robin Hood Court.Template:PnItemQry

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