West Riding of Yorkshire place-names

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By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-04. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-05.

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Introduction

This page lists, and provides data summaries of, West Riding of Yorkshire place-names. Similar pages exist for the East, and North Ridings as well as for the entire shire.

A systematic search for relevant field names in all tithe awards for West Riding townships[1] was completed on 20 June 2020. Everything found in the course of this search has a page of its own in this section of IRHB. Since all relevant field names (as well as place-names) found in Smith's Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire[2] are also included, it is perhaps not too optimistic to think that IRHBs' coverage of Robin Hood-related field names in the West Riding is close to exhaustive. There is still a fairly short list of place-names to be added from 25" and 6" Ordnance Survey maps.

Chronology

15th Century

2 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 15th century.

16th Century

2 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 16th century.

17th Century

6 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 17th century.

18th Century

13 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 18th century.

19th Century

70 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 19th century.

20th Century

13 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 20th century.

21st Century

5 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 21st century.

Local traditions

7 Localities with local traditions relating to Robin Hood.

Literary locales

33 Literary locales.

Artifacts

1 Robin Hood-related artifact.

Miscellaneous

18 Miscellaneous place-names and localities.

All localities

190 Place-names and localities.

Place-name clusters

31 Clusters of Robin Hood place-names, localities with local traditions, literary locales etc.


Lists and Gazetteers

Background

Neighbours

Also see

Notes