Sherwood House (Pinkneys Green)

Locality
Coordinate	51.539135, -0.760844
Adm. div.	Berkshire
Vicinity	Furze Platt Road; c. 3.25 km NW of central Maidenhead
Type	Building
Interest	Miscellaneous
Status	Extant
First Record

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Sherwood House.

Sherwood House indicated with a yellow pin / Google Earth.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-05-21. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-02-13.

The next-door neighbour to the recently closed Robin Hood at 1 Furze Platt Road, c. 10 m NE of the pub, is a private residence named Sherwood House. It is hard to imagine that its name was not inspired by that of its neighbour.

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.

Sources

• The Move Market: Sherwood House, Furze Platt Road, Maidenhead, Windsor And Maidenhead, SL6 6PR.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Berkshire XXIV.9 (c. 1878; surveyed 1875). No copy in NLS
• 25" O.S. map Berkshire XXIV.9 (1899; rev. 1897) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Berkshire XXIV.9 (1899; rev. 1897)
• 25" O.S. map Berkshire XXIV.9 (1912; rev. 1910)
• 25" O.S. map Berkshire XXIV.9 (1933; rev. 1931)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXIV (1882; surveyed 1875)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXIV.SW (1900; rev. 1897) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXIV.SW (1900; rev. 1897)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXIV.SW (1913; rev. 1910)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXIV.SW (1926; rev. 1923)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXIV.SW (1931; rev. 1931-1932)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXIV.SW (c. 1944; rev. 1938).

Background

• Wikipedia: Pinkneys Green.

Also see

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

Notes

 Berkshire place-names 

 Place-names