Robin Hood Lane (Helsby)

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Robin Hood Lane in Helsby.

Robin Hood Lane in Helsby / Google Earth Street View

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-21. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-04.

Robin Hood Lane is not labelled on any of the O.S. maps listed below (see Maps section), but as several other streets in Helsby also lack labels we cannot conclude from this that the street name had not come into use at the time. There is also a Lower Robin Hood Lane in Helsby.

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
• Not included in Dodgson, John McN.; Rumble, Alexander R. The Place-Names of Cheshire, pts. I-V (English Place-Name Society, vols. XLIV-XLVIII, LIV, LXXIV) (Cambridge, 1970-72; [s.l.], 1981; Nottingham, 1997).

Maps

• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXII (1881; surveyed 1873-74)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXII.NW (1899; rev. 1897)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXII.NW (1899; rev. 1897) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXII.NW (1911; rev. 1908)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXII.NW (c. 1936; rev. 1908)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXII.NW (c. 1944; rev. 1938).

Also see

• Helsby place-name cluster.