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- • Map of English place-names – may take a while to open – open on new tab By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-08. Revised by … International place-names For international and British place-names see the following pages: Introduction This page lists Robin Hood-related place-names in England and summarizes the data through maps and charts. Under place-names are included localities certainly or possibly named after Robin Hood or subsidiary characters of the tradition, localities named after historical persons named Robin/Robert Hood or surnamed Littlejohn etc., localities with local traditions relating to Robin Hood or subsidiary characters, and localities that are mentioned or figure as locale in ballads, tales and dramas, mainly before c. 1600. Each locality has a page of its own, but the amount of detail provided varies considerably. For Robin Hood-related place-names in evidence in the Medieval or Early Modern period I generally provide more …3 KB (462 words) - 12:43, 17 June 2022
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- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-02-12. Revised by … County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Herefordshire as follows: Herfordshire is only English county wholly west of the Severn. It is also possibly England's most rural county. Indeed it is said that outside Hereford and Leominster the population has not increased since the Middle Ages. The hills are rugged green pasture, with deep river valleys along which the shire's villages are found. The foothills of Brecknockshire's Black Mountains begin in western Herefordshire, some standing at 2,000 feet. East of them the land comes in a number of great northwest-southeast folds, including the famous Golden Valley. The very east of the county rises into the whaleback of the Malvem Hills, forming the border with Worcestershire. The major river of Herefordshire is the Wye, which runs from Clifford next to the bounds of Radnorshire down to Hereford then writhes toward Ross-on-Wye before running out of the county. The …4 KB (519 words) - 05:06, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-20. Revised by … County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Bedfordshire as follows: Bedfordshire is a relatively small county in the southern Midlands. It is largely low-lying, though the Chiltern Hills also reach into the southern part of the county. The chief river is the Great Ouse, which snakes through the county, producing very fertile country, and on whose banks lies the county town, Bedford. In area, most of the county is agricultural. However there are several large towns and industrial development around many towns. The main town is Luton, an industrial town with a major airport. Bedford itself, is smaller, but a thriving town nevertheless. While no "New Towns" were planted in Bedfordshire, Bedford, Luton and several towns have been the subject of similar planned expansion, influenced by the A1, which runs through the centre of the county, and the M1 in its south. Nevertheless, away from the main towns Bedfordshire …3 KB (411 words) - 05:06, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-09-19. Revised by … County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Cornwall as follows: The Royal Duchy of Cornwall is in the very southwest of Britain. Land's End is the westernmost point of mainland England, and the Lizard its southernmost. Twenty-eight miles southwest of Land's End lie the Isles of Scilly. Cornwall is triangular in shape, surrounded to the north and south by the sea and on the east by the River Tamar, which forms the border with Devon almost from coast to coast. Both coasts provide breathtaking scenery, its granite cliffs beaten by the full force of the Atlantic. Southern Cornwall is a little more protected and has long, twisting creeks bringing the tide deep into the land, which were once ideal for smugglers. Inland are farms and moorland. There are many prehistoric remains on the moors and hills. Cornwall's rough and rugged landscape has inspired poets, novelists and artists for centuries. The old industries (or …3 KB (479 words) - 05:06, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-09-15. Revised by … County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Somerset as follows: Somerset stretches along the southern shore of the Severnmouth and the Bristol Channel from the Avon to Exmoor. In the heart of the county are the Somerset Levels, a remarkable flat land reaching in from the Bristol Channel, divided in two by the low range of the Polden Hills. The land of the Levels is at or around sea level and in former days was regularly flooded (and some have suggested that Somerset's gets its name from the reappearance of the land in the summer). The Levels are cross-crossed with "rhines", drainage ditches, and that many of the villages' names end in -ey, "-island" tells of life before the Somerset Levels were drained. One of the most dramatic features here is Glastonbury Tor, a lone hill rising steeply out of the landscape above the town of Glastonbury (reputed burial place of King Arthur and a magnet for newly invented …4 KB (622 words) - 05:07, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-07-17. Revised by … Introduction This page lists, and provides data summaries of, Yorkshire place-names. Similar pages exist for the East, North, and West Riding. A systematic search for relevant field names in all Yorkshire tithe awards Online at The Genealogist (£). was completed on 26 Sep. 2020. Everything found in the course of this search has a page of its own in this section of IRHB. However, there is still a short list of place-names to be added from early Ordnance Survey maps, the English Place-Name Society's volume on the North Riding of Yorkshire, Smith, Albert Hugh 1928a. and Dobson & Taylor's list of Robin Hood-related place-names. Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a|Dobson & Taylor, pp. 306-307. County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Yorkshire as follows: Yorkshire is the largest county of them all by far. It stretches from the North Sea coast deep into and over the Pennine Mountains, and from the River Tees to …9 KB (1,429 words) - 05:07, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-31. Revised by … County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Surrey as follows: Shropshire is a large county; the largest of the shires without a coastline. It remains rural except in one intense district of industrialisation and urbanization at Telford and Ironbridge. The River Severn shapes much of Shropshire. It passes through the middle of the county forming a broad, rich valley and floodplain. The Severn curls around Shrewsbury, the county town like a moat. Shrewsbury is a town built on a hill above the Severn with a mediæval castle and Tudor streets. It was King Charles I's capital for a while too. Further downstream the Seven enters the Severn Gorge where it is bridged by the famous Iron Bridge, a symbol of the Industrial Revolution which took root here. The town of Ironbridge which grew up from the works around the bridge, is no longer at the cutting edge of industrial advances; it is a heritage centre. Immediately …4 KB (650 words) - 05:06, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-23. Revised by … County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Rutland as follows: Rutland is the smallest county in England, and indeed the smallest of them all after Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire. Rutland is the heart of the Midlands. Rutland is almost entirely agricultural, the only towns of any size being Oakham and Uppingham, both small and charming. Elsewhere Rutland is characterized by delightful villages. Those in the east of the county are built mostly in oolitic limestone, those in the south and west more in warm limestone. Rutland is a well watered place; the Eye Brook, the Chater, and the Gwash flowing through green vales between rolling hills. The south-eastern border is the Welland. The Gwash was dammed in the 1970s, flooding a huge area for a reservoir; Rutland Water. Although its construction was the subject of considerable opposition and involved the demolition of the hamlet of Nether Hambleton, Rutland …3 KB (432 words) - 05:06, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-02-21. Revised by … County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Cumberland as follows: Cumberland must be looked at in two parts, a highland area and a lowland, coastal area. The hills of Cumberland form a great part of the exquisite Lake District. Derwentwater, Buttermere and Crummockwater, Ennerdale Water, Wast Water, and part of Ullswater lie in Cumberland. Above them rise mountains, including England's highest mountain, Scafell Pike (3,210 feet). Also within Cumberland are Scafell, Skiddaw, Great Gable and Pillar. This is prime walking country for hardy souls. Beyond the green Eden valley, the Penines cross the east of Cumberland, with Cross Pell, 2,930 feet, the highest. In the north is Carlisle, a cathedral city, whose massive castle and fortifications against the Scots still dominate much of the town. In the rest of Cumberland fortified churches and "peel houses" are found, built as a defence not so much against the Scots …3 KB (422 words) - 05:06, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-19. Revised by … County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Staffordshire as follows: Staffordshire stretches from the Black Country in the south into forest in the north. South-eastern Staffordshire is covered by urban growth arising from its central part in the Industrial Revolution. This is the Black Country, rich in coal mines and strung with industrial canals. The heavy industry of the nineteenth century gathered here and in nearby Birmingham, so that all have grown together into a giant conurbation of communities, in which are the City of Wolverhampton, West Bromwich, Walsall and Wednesbury. In complete contrast, elsewhere there is fine natural scenery. Dovedale, on the boundary of Staffordshire, and Beresford Dale are renowned. The high ground in the north of the county north of Leek has beautiful valleys as the land rises up to the Peak District. The Potteries district lies on the upper Trent, where Stoke on Trent and …4 KB (509 words) - 05:07, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-02. Revised by … County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Wiltshire as follows: Wiltshire is a downland rural county of the West Country. In the south of the county is Salisbury and in the north is Swindown. Between the two lies the great expanse of Salisbury Plain. Southern Wiltshire is known for pretty towns and villages. It is a wealthy agricultural land. In its middle is the City of Salisbury. Salisbury was a mediæval "new town", built around an ornate cathedral; the cathedral with the highest spire in Britain. The cathedral close, in which are the most exclusive houses in town, is renowned. The origin of the city is found on a hill to the north; Old Sarum, a city since the iron age, now abandoned. North of Salisbury is Salisbury Plain, some 300 square miles of uncultivated chalkland. Much of the Plain is used by the army for training. The Plain is home to Stonehenge, and many ancient burial mounds and manmade features …4 KB (485 words) - 05:07, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-08. Revised by … County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Huntingdonshire as follows: One of the smallest of the counties, Huntingdonshire is a county of pretty little villages, with no major towns until the Peterborough suburbs at the county's northern fringe. It lies between Cambridgeshire to the east and Northamptonshire and Bedforshire on the west. Huntingdonshire is roughly rhomboid in shape, centered on Huntingdon, and the meeting of the Great North Road (now the A1) and the route from east coast to the Midland towns, now the A14. The four towns of Huntingdonshire are St Neots, St Ives, Ramsey and Huntingdon itself; three mediæval abbey towns and the fortress of the Ouse. Huntingdonshire is almost entirely flat. The south of the county is a network of villages surrounded by mixed farming. North of Huntingdon the land lies within the Great Fen, long since drained and converted into broad, fertile arable fields. Much of …3 KB (473 words) - 05:06, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-01. Revised by … County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Durham as follows: County Durham was in the Middle Ages a county palatine under the rule of the Bishop of Durham; the Prince-Bishops as they were known. A great deal has changed in Durham since those days though, even is the palatinate ended only in 1836. County Durham today is in parts a heavily industrialized county. It is rich in mines; coal, iron, lead, mill-stone grit and limestone. Indeed in parts of Durham sea-coal is driven from undersea ridges onto the beaches in industrial quantities. The mines, now in deep decline, drove the county's development. The mouths of the Tees and the Tyne are heavily industrialised and urban. The northeast of the county, including Gateshead, Washington, South Shields and Sunderland, is the most urbanised. However away from the urban areas, in particular in the west of the county, Durham becomes hill country; the Durham Dales are …4 KB (578 words) - 05:06, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-08-11. Revised by … County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Westmorland as follows: Westmorland is one of the Lake Counties. It is a mountainous shire, with some of the grandest scenery of the land. The heart of Westmorland lies in the Lakeland fells. One of the most famous roads is that over the Kirkstone Pass, a bleak, sheer rock pass across the mountains. Westmorland touches the sea in the River Kent estuary as it enters Morecambe Bay. This point divides Lancashire into two. At the head of the Ken dale is Kendal, around which is a pleasant land of low hills. Westward is Windermere, which marks the boundary with the Furness district of Lancashire, the largest lake in England, though not the largest in the whole country. Ambleside, at the head of Windermere, is a delightful town hard up against the mountains. From here a wee lane runs steeply up to the Kirkstone Pass. Across the mountains is Edendale. The River Eden runs from …4 KB (622 words) - 05:07, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-10-19. Revised by … County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Northamptonshire as follows: Northamptonshire is an inland county. It was once known as the county of "spires and squires"; the haunt of wealthy landowners and a place with several fine mediæval church spires. It is said to be fine foxhunting country. Industry and new town developments have changed the face of Northamptonshire though. Corby was until recently one of the greatest steelworks towns, working the local iron ore. Other towns around it have grown up to service Corby industry or to hug the transport links that cross the shire. Northampton has long been famous for shoes. The industry is no longer dominant, but Northampton is the top location for the leatherworking trade. The town has grown substantially in the last decade or two since it was declared a New Town. The New town elements are the growing outskirts of the town; the centre remains that of a …4 KB (565 words) - 05:06, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-06-04. Revised by … County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Devon as follows: Devon is large county in the southeastern corner of the land; only Cornwall lies beyond to the west. Devon has two seacoasts to north and south, with the Bristol Channel and English Channel respectively. Dorset and Somerset are to the east. Devonshire has a proud seagoing tradition. The Elizabethan navy that defeated the armada and "singed the King of Spain's beard" was largely drawn from Devon. Sir Francis Drake was a Tavistock man. Only in recent years has the Royal Navy scaled down its dominant presence in Devonport in Plymouth. The southern coast is very lovely, rugged between Thurlestone and Salcombe, from where a network of craggy tidal creeks reaches deep into the land. Cliffs front the sea. The northern coastline is remarkable for steep thickly-wooded cliffs between Lynmouth and Ilfracombe, while beyond the Taw and Torridge estuaries there is …4 KB (596 words) - 05:06, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-08-18. Revised by … County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Dorset as follows: Dorset is a Wessex county of chalk downs, a charming coast and the home of the stately and rural life lovingly captured in the novels of Thomas Hardy, a Dorset man, and before him by the Rev. William Barnes. The downs reach a height of over 900 feet in the west. Dorset's farmland and the look it has bequeathed to the landscape has thankfully been little touched by excessive modern development. The limestone cliffs of the Dorset coast are rich in nature and in other ways; "Purbeck marble", Portland stone, and from the cliffs of Lyme Regis innumerable dinosaur fossils. Chesil Beach, a unique pebble bank runs some eight miles to the Isle of Portland, projecting into the English Channel south from Weymouth. Weymouth and Poole Harbour are top yachting havens. Poole Harbour, a great island-studded inlet between Purbeck and the town of Poole, is one of the …3 KB (440 words) - 05:06, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-08-15. Revised by … County description The Historic Counties Trust describes Gloucestershire as follows: Gloucester is a large county stretching, west to east, from the Welsh border to Berkshire and, south to north, from Somerset to Warwickshire. It is split by the Severn on which sits the City of Gloucester. Gloucestershire has three distinct parts. The best known part is the Cotswold Hills, which cover the east of the county, and spread also into Oxfordshire. The Cotswolds are famed for the beauty of their villages and the landscape. The Cotswolds remain a wealthy sheep-farming region. Locally quarried Cotswold stone is used ubiquitously throughout the Cotswolds, producing picture-postcard, honey coloured towns and villages. The Severn Vale by contrast is flat and shaped by the great river. Gloucester though apparantly inland is a port relying on the river, while further north is historic Tewkesbury, on a slight rise in the flat Vale from …4 KB (479 words) - 05:06, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-11. Revised by … Introduction This page lists Robin Hood related place-names in present-day Greater London. Some of these are located in areas that formerly belonged to neighbouring (historic) counties. Lists and gazetteers ⁃ Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a, pp. 299-300. Background ⁃ Wikipedia: London. Neighbours ⁃ Buckinghamshire ⁃ Essex ⁃ Hertfordshire ⁃ Kent ⁃ Middlesex ⁃ Surrey. Notes1 KB (139 words) - 05:06, 27 May 2022
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- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-07-11. Revised by … Thailand Robin Hood place-names in Thailand. Bangkok943 bytes (114 words) - 15:05, 17 June 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-06-24. Revised by … The place-names included here are found recorded in the form 'Robinhood' (or similar), i.e. with first and last name spelt in one word. English place-names containing the element 'Robinhood' or 'Robhod' etc.:1 KB (119 words) - 04:46, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-07. Revised by … English place-names English localities and place-names figuring in A Gest of Robyn Hode, including known instances of the place-name or field name 'Plumpton Park': Doubtful place-names ⁃ Doubtful place-names in Gest of Robyn Hode. Country names ⁃ England. Also see ⁃ Barnsdale place-name cluster ⁃ Gest of Robyn Hode ⁃ Place-names in ballads.982 bytes (114 words) - 16:57, 17 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by … Robin Hood place-names related to Robinhood Kennel Road (Tallahassee): Florida place-names627 bytes (74 words) - 04:46, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by … Robin Hood place-names related to Robinhood Road, Georgetown, ME: Maine place-names599 bytes (72 words) - 04:46, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen 2014-08-20. Revised by … Robin Hood place-names on Robinhood Road (Winston-Salem): North Carolina place-names659 bytes (76 words) - 04:46, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-10-01. Revised by … For each of the ballads listed here there is a list of place-names figuring as locale or mentioned in the ballad:706 bytes (88 words) - 04:46, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-11. Revised by … Introduction This page lists Robin Hood related place-names in present-day Greater London. Some of these are located in areas that formerly belonged to neighbouring (historic) counties. Lists and gazetteers ⁃ Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a, pp. 299-300. Background ⁃ Wikipedia: London. Neighbours ⁃ Buckinghamshire ⁃ Essex ⁃ Hertfordshire ⁃ Kent ⁃ Middlesex ⁃ Surrey. Notes1 KB (139 words) - 05:06, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2015-06-26. Revised by … frequently occurring Robin Hood place-names and places that are mentioned in ballads and may be identified with several actual localities. Also see ⁃ Public houses named after Robin Hood.826 bytes (97 words) - 04:45, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-04-22. Revised by … The list includes gazetteers, lists, and monographs on Robin Hood place-names. These all focus on English place-names. Sources dealing only with specific counties or localities are found under the county/localitiy in question. ⁃ Anonymous 2006a, p. 152 s.n. 'Friar Tuck', 200 s.n. 'Ivanhoe', 232 s.n. 'Little John', 244 s.n. 'Maid Marian', 327-28 s.n. 'Robin Hood'. ⁃ Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a, pp. 293-311: "A Select List of Robin Hood Place-Names", including some 120 English Robin Hood place-names, excluding street names, inn names and field-names. ⁃ Midgley Webpages: Places which carry the name Robin Hood/Little John. Includes some 150 place-names. ⁃ Mitchell, William Reginald 1970a. ⁃⁃ Mitchell, William Reginald 1978a. ⁃ Robin Hood: The Facts and the Fiction - Robin Hood Place Names. Chief source is Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a, pp. 293-3112 KB (213 words) - 11:22, 17 June 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-19. Revised by … Introduction This page lists, and provides data summaries of, East Riding of Yorkshire place-names. Similar pages exist for the North, and West Ridings as well as for the entire shire. Lists and gazetteers ⁃ Nothing in Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a, pp. 293-311 ⁃ Smith, Albert Hugh 1937a ⁃⁃ Smith, Albert Hugh 1970a. Background ⁃ The Historic Counties Trust: Historic Counties Descriptions. Neighbours ⁃ Lincolnshire ⁃ North Riding of Yorkshire ⁃ Nottinghamshire ⁃ West Riding of Yorkshire ⁃ Yorkshire. Also see ⁃ North Riding of Yorkshire place-names ⁃ West Riding of Yorkshire place-names ⁃ Yorkshire place-names. Notes2 KB (207 words) - 05:06, 27 May 2022
- By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-19. Revised by … Robin Hood place-names in Europe outside the British Isles, listed by country. Cyprus Finland France Germany Netherlands Turkey2 KB (264 words) - 11:21, 17 June 2022
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