Sherwood Avenue (Blidworth)

Locality
Coordinate	53.100724, -1.104201
Adm. div.	Nottinghamshire
Vicinity	Side-street of Dale Lane, Blidworth
Type	Thoroughfare
Interest	Miscellaneous
Status	Extant
First Record

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Sherwood Avenue, Blidworth.

Sherwood Avenue, Blidworth / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-24. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

Sherwood Avenue in Blidworth perhaps simply owes its name to is proximity to one of the few remaining areas of the original forest, but given the fact that a side-street is named Robin Hood Road and in view of some townspeople's apparent belief that Will Scarlet lies buried at some unknown spot in the local graveyard, it seems far from impossible that the name was chosen, at least in part, to strengthen the Robin Hood-connections of this little town.

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.

Background

• Wikipedia: Blidworth.

Also see

• Blidworth place-name cluster
• Places named after Sherwood Forest.

 Nottinghamshire place-names 

 Place-names