Robinhood Alley (Milk Street)

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The corner of Milk Street and Robinhood Alley was very close to the point indicated on the map.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|The corner of Milk Street and Robinhood Alley was very close to where the pillar closest to the camera is now located / Google Earth Street View.]]

Robinhood Alley is shown but not labelled on John Rocque's 1746 map of London / Locating London's Past.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-01-18. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-17.

Listed in Harben's Dictionary of London under 'Robinhood Court' and by Dobson & Taylor as 'Robin Hood Court', the little street whose earliest known name was 'Robinhood Alley' ran "[e]ast out of Milk Street at No. 1, with a passage to Honey Lane Market. In Cheap Ward and Cripplegate Ward Within".[1]

Lockie's Topography (1810), which is the first source to use the name Robinhood Court, lists the locality as follows: "Robinhood-Court, Milk-Street, Cheapside,—two doors on the R. from Honey-lane-market, entering by 116, Cheapside."[2] The two passages in John Strype's survey of London and Westminster (1720) which include the first occurrence of any variant of this street name are included below in the Allusions section. According to Harben, Ogilby and Morgan's 1677 map of London labels the street 'Robinson's Court'. I have not been able to verify this as the copies of the map available online do not include any label for the street (see Maps section below for links). The street is labelled 'Robin Hood Al[ley] on Richard Horwood's map of London and Westminster (1792-99).[3]Template:PnItemQry

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