Robin Hood Lane (Poplar)

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Robin Hood Lane, Poplar.

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By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-28. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-04-05.

Robin Hood Lane in Poplar is first recorded on Joel Gascoyne's 1703 map of Stepney (see Maps section below).[1] Since 1966 it has been home to a controversial 'brutalist' concrete housing project named Robin Hood Gardens, which is now being torn down.

Robin Hood Lane figures not infrequently in reports of cases at the Old Bailey (see Records below). It is included in the list of London street and place-names in the Compleat Compting-House Companion (1763).[2] Lockie in his Topography of London (1810) lists it as "Robinhood-Lane, Poplar,—at the E. end of Polar-High-st. or road, on the L. extending to the East-India dock-gate" (see Gazetteers below).Template:PnItemQry

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