Robin Hood Yard (Holborn)

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Site of Robin Hood Yard, Holborn

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Around here was the entrance to Robin Hood Yard / Google Earth Street View.]]

Robin Hood Yard, on Rocque's 1746 Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster / Locating London's Past.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-06-16. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-17.

Robin Hood Yard was a narrow oblong yard or cul-de-sac lane reached from a side entrance on the east side of Leather Lane. Lockie in his Topography of London (editions of 1810 and 1813) lists it as "Robinhood-Yard, Leather-Lane, Holborn,—8 doors on the R. from 128, Holborn-hill".[1] The earliest certain record of the place-name known to IRHB is John Rocque's 1746 Plan of London and Westminster.[2] However, it is not impossible that the "Robin hood's yard in shoe lane" listed in a register entitled A New Review of London (1728) is really this yard in Leather Lane. Robin Hood Court in Shoe Lane would seem more likely to be meant, but this is already included in the list under the usual form of its name.[3] Robin Hood Yard in Leather Lane is also included in the list of London street and place-names in the Compleat Compting-House Companion (1763),[4] and figures occasionally in reports of cases at the Old Bailey (see Records below). It no doubt owed its name to the circumstance that it was adjacent to one of Holborn's at least three inns named the Robin Hood.

Included on the 1968 edition of Bartholomew's Reference Atlas of Greater London,[5] the yard has since disappeared from the maps. There is still a (now quite irregularly shaped) yard in the area between the building that houses the Sir Christopher Hatton restaurant on the eastern side of Leather Lane and the London Diamond Bourse and Barclay's Bank on the west side of Hatton Garden, but this can hardly be open to the public. I doubt very much if the man in the street is allowed to get so close to the diamonds.Template:PnItemQry

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