Robin Hood Terrace (Ravenshead)

Locality
Coordinate	53.093425, -1.155697
Adm. div.	Nottinghamshire
Vicinity	Cul-de-sac on west side of Sandy Lane, a side road of Main Road in Ravenshead
Type	Thoroughfare
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record

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Robin Hood Terrace in Ravenshead.

Robin Hood Terrace in Ravenshead / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-05-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.

Robin Hood Terrace is a residential cul-de-sac in Ravenshead. It may owe its name to the fact that it is located only about 50 m from a Little John Inn.

Robin Hood Terrace is shown without name on the O.S. maps listed below. Does the name date from the 20th century?

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.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVIII.14 (1884; surveyed 1883)
• 25" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVIII.14 (1900; rev. 1898)
• 25" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVIII.14 (1900; rev. 1898) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVIII.14 (1915; rev. 1913)
• 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVIII.SW (1885; surveyed 1877-83)
• 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVIII.SW (1900; rev. 1897-98)
• 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVIII.SW (1900; rev. 1897-98) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVIII.SW (1920; rev. 1913)
• 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVIII.SW (c. 1949; rev. 1939).

Background

• Wikipedia: Ravenshead.

Also see

• Ravenshead place-name cluster.

 Nottinghamshire place-names 

 Place-names