Rowena Avenue (Kirk Sandall)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
| Locality | |
|---|---|
| Coordinate | 53.55121, -1.067302 |
| Adm. div. | West Riding of Yorkshire |
| Vicinity | Connecting Cedric Road and Ridgewood Avenue in Kirk Sandall |
| Type | Thoroughfare |
| Interest | Miscellaneous |
| Status | Extant |
| First Record | 1930 |
Rowena Avenue, Kirk Sandall.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-06-18. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.
Rowena Avenue is one of a cluster of eleven, mainly residential, streets with Robin Hood/Ivanhoe-themed names in Kirk Sandall. As can be seen on 25" and 6" O.S. maps of the area published c. 1930, the road was then planned or under construction. It is named on the maps. In Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (1820), the lovely Lady Rowena is the ward of Cedric the Saxon, the father of Wilfred of Ivanhoe. Cedric wants her to marry Athelstane the Saxon, but she is in love with Ivanhoe, of course.
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 Yorkshire CCLXXVII.11 (1892; surveyed 1891)
- 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CCLXXVII.10 (1906; rev. 1904) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CCLXXVII.11 (1906; rev. 1904)
- 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CCLXXVII.11 (1930; rev. 1928)
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire 277 (1854; surveyed 1849–50)
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCLXXVII.SE (1893; surveyed 1890–91)
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCLXXVII.SE (1907; rev. 1904) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCLXXVII.SE (1907; rev. 1904)
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCLXXVII.SE (1931; rev. 1928–29)
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCLXXVII.SE (1950; rev. 1948).
Background
Also see
- Kirk Sandall place-name cluster
- Doncaster place-name cluster
- Places named after Ivanhoe
- Scott, Walter - Ivanhoe.