Robin Hood Road (Knaphill, Woking)

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Robin Hood Road.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Robin Hood Road / Google Earth Street View.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-17. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-06.

Robin Hood Road between Knaphill and St John's, Woking, connects a small cluster of localities with Robin Hood-related names, for which see Knaphill place-name cluster. The earliest I have found for this road name is a 25" O.S. map of the area published in 1936 and based on surveying done in 1934.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Surrey XVI.11 (1916; rev. 1913) (road shown, not labelled)
• 25" O.S. map Surrey XVI.11 (1936; rev. 1934) (road shown and labelled)
• 25" O.S. map Surrey XVI.11 (1916; rev. 1913) (road shown, not labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Surrey XVI (1873; surveyed 1870-71) (road shown, not labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Surrey XVI.SE (1897; rev. 1894-95) (road shown, not labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Surrey XVI.SE (1897; rev. 1894-95) (georeferenced) (road shown, not labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Surrey XVI.SE (1920; rev. 1913) (road shown, not labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Surrey XVI.SE (1937; rev. 1934-35) (road shown and labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Surrey XVI.SE (c. 1944; rev. 1938) (road shown and labelled)
• 6" O.S. map Surrey XVI.SE (c. 1946; rev. 1938) (road shown and labelled)

Background

• Wikipedia: Knaphill.

Also see

• place-name cluster.