Sherwood Avenue (Boston)

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Sherwood Avenue.

Looking northwest on Marian Road / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-09. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-17.

Friar Way, Greenwood Drive, Locksley Close, Marian Road, Sheriff Way and Sherwood Avenue were all obviously inspired by the presence in this immediate are of a residential street named Robin Hood's Walk, which itself goes at least as far back as 1640.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.