Robin Hoods Ground (Winnersh)
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Robinhood Lane in Winnersh, near which Robin Hoods Ground was probably located / Google Earth Street View.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-09-22. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-09-22.
"Robin Hoods Ground" was the mid-19th century local name for a piece of land in Winnersh, probably near Robinhood Lane.
According to the English Place-Name Society's volume on this part of Berkshire, a locality named "Robin Hoods Ground" is listed in the tithe award for Winnersh (1843). It is implied that this was near Robinhood Lane.[1] Unfortunately there are no scans of the tithe award for Winnersh at the Genealogist,[2] so until the MS tithe award is located and the exact location of Robin Hoods Ground established, the coordinates used in the info box and on the Google Map are those of a randomly chosen point on Robinhood Lane.Template:PnItemQry
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.
MS sources
- Tithe award for Winnersh (1843).[3]
Printed sources
- Gelling, Margaret. The Place-Names of Berkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XLIX-LI) (Cambridge, 1973; [s.l.], 1974-76), pt. I, p. 138 (parish cf. p. 136).
Maps
Maps of the area. Robin Hoods Ground not indicated or labelled.
- 25" O.S. map Berkshire XXXVIII.6 (c. 1875; surveyed 1871). No Copy in NLS
- 25" O.S. map Berkshire XXXVIII.6 (1899; rev. 1898)
- 25" O.S. map Berkshire XXXVIII.10 (1899; rev. 1898)
- 25" O.S. map Berkshire XXXVIII.6 (1899; rev. 1898) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Berkshire XXXVIII.10 (1911; rev. 1909)
- 25" O.S. map Berkshire XXXVIII.6 (1912; rev. 1910)
- 25" O.S. map Berkshire XXXVIII.10 (1933; rev. 1931).
- 25" O.S. map Berkshire XXXVIII.6 (1933; rev. 1932)
- 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXXVIII (1883; surveyed 1871-72)
- 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXXVIII.NW (1900; rev. 1898)
- 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXXVIII.SW (1900; rev. 1898)
- 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXXVIII.NW (1900; rev. 1898) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXXVIII.SW (1912; rev. 1909)
- 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXXVIII.NW (1913; rev. 1910)
- 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXXVIII.SW (c. 1933; rev. 1931-32)
- 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXXVIII.NW (c. 1934; rev. 1932)
- 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXXVIII.SW (c. 1944; rev. 1931-32).
- 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXXVIII.NW (c. 1944; rev. 1938)
Background
- The Genealogist (subscription required)
- Wikipedia: Winnersh.
Notes
- ↑ Gelling, Margaret. The Place-Names of Berkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XLIX-LI) (Cambridge, 1973; [s.l.], 1974-76), pt. I, p. 138.
- ↑ Subscription required.
- ↑ Not seen, but cf. Gelling, Margaret. The Place-Names of Berkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XLIX-LI) (Cambridge, 1973; [s.l.], 1974-76), pt. I, p. 138.