A longbow-man illustrated in the Luterell Psalter [1325-1340].	A tonsured crossbow-man found on the same page.

NAME	NEAR	COMMENT	County
Robin Hood Lane	Llanbedr	The only R.H. place-name known in Wales, joins the line of the Roman road from Caerwent to Caerleon.	Newport, Wales
Robin Hoods Lane,	In Harrogate	In the 1700's Robin Hood's Lane, now Cold Bath Lane. [Speight, Harry. Nidderdale, 1906, p. 293.]	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Park and well	Knaresborough, North of Wath	North side of Nidderdale	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Wood	Fountains Abbey, West Yorkshire.	South bank of river Skell downstream from the Abbey.	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Well and Wood	Fountains Abbey West Yorkshire.	To the S.W. of the Abbey, a spring gushes out of the hillside. It is now associated with Friar Tuck's combat with, and ducking of, Robin Hood. Occurs as 'Robin Hood Wood' [see above] in 1734.	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Bay	East Coast of Yorkshire, otherwise known as Baytown.	First recorded 1544.8 Traditionally, Robin left here to harbour at Staithes. Prior to 1544 it was known as Baytown.	Yorkshire
Hood Lane	East Coast of YorkshirE near Cloughton, south of Robin Hood's Bay.		Yorkshire
Robin Hood Road	South of Robin Hood's Bay		Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Stone and Little John's Stone.	South of Whitby near Manor House Farm, Whitby Laithes, North Yorkshire	First recorded 1540 and again in 1713. Nearby are two fields called 'Little John Field' and 'Robin Hood Field'. there are two upright stones here which are reputed to mark where L.J. and R.H. shot their sheaf of ten arrows  from the abbey ~1900 yards.	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Butts	3 km south of Robin Hood's Bay.	Bronze Age tumuli on Brow Moor.	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Stone	4 miles S.E. of Skipton.	A stone near Silsden. mentioned in an 1846 tithe award.10	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Park/Wood	4 miles S.W. of Ripon, Nr. Fountains Abbey.	A name applied to part of an estate.	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Woods	East of Healaugh near Tadcaster.	No longer extant but mentioned in 1752 and 1899 but strangely not shown on the 1849 O.S. map.	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Howl	1 mile west of Kirby Moorside, Between Pickering and Helmsley, in North Yorkshire.	A hole or hollow on the south facing scarp of the North Yorkshire Moors	Yorkshire
Robin Hood	4 miles S.E. of Leeds	An industrial town which appears on the 1841 O.S. map. The township has given it's name to surrounding quarries and collieries.	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Close and Little John's Close.	Whitby, North Yorkshire..	Two adjacent fields immediately west of Whitby Laithes, recorded in 1713. At one time two monoliths stood here, one four feet high and the other two and a half. These stood at the sides of the two fields, to the north of the lane that leads from Whitby Laithes to Stainsacre. They traditionally mark the places where arrows landes which were shot by the two heroes from the top of Whitby Abbey.10	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Grave	Kirklees Park, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.	Reputed site of Robin's burial 650 yards S.W. of   an earthworks which is the site of a Cistercian nunnery founded in the 1175. 'Kirkley monasterium Monialium ubi Ro : Hood nobilis ille exlex  sepultus' - Leyland's Collectanea.	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Cottage	Kirklees Park, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.	Near to Robin Hood's Grave.	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Well	5 miles N.W. of Sheffield, West of M1, N.W. of Rotherham	A well found in Low Hall Wood, N.W. of Ecclesfield. It appears as 'Robin Hood's Well' in 1773. It is possibly associated with Robin Hood's Bower and Moss.	Yorkshire
Hood Hill	between Sheffield & Barnsley, South Yorkshire	South Yorkshire	Yorkshire
Hood Hill and Hood Grange	North of Kilburn, North yorkshire	Hood Hill is probably named after the Norse God, Hod. Here in 1319 was named 'Castelhod', probably from the earthworks near the summit.15	yorkshire
Hood Wood	N.E. of Cawthorne, on an old Packhorse route, South Yorkshire	South Yorkshire	Yorkshire
Robin Hood farm	1km north of Catterick Bridge	Alongside Dere Street	Yorkshire
Robin Hood Tower	York city walls	The name given to the northern angle tower of the city wall between Bootham Bar and Monk Bar. first recorded in 1622. Prior to this it was called Bawing Tower [1370] and Frost Tower [1485].10	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Cross	Three miles S.W. of Hathersage	medieval wayside cross on the moors, one mile east of Bradwell in Hazlebadge parish. The base of the cross was still extant in the 1970's. Recorded as 'Robin Crosse' in 1319. and 'The Robin Crosse' in 1640.	Derbyshire
Robin Hood's Cave	Rainworth, near Clipston, Sherwood	1700 - The first recorded Sherwood landmark.8 Local tradition has it that Robin Hood captured the Bishop of Hereford here in the Woods  of Bishopshill.	Derbyshire
Robin Hood's Cave	Stanage, East of Hathersage.	High on the east the facing scarp of Stanage.	Derbyshire
Robin Hood	Six miles west of Chesterfield.	A small hamlet, N.E. of Chatworth Park,  derived from an inn called "Robin Hood"	Derbyshire
Robin Hood's Leap	Chatsworth	A chasm on the Chatsworth estate.	Derbyshire
Robin Hood's Chair	Hope Dale	'A rude natural rock in Hope Dale'	Derbyshire
Robin Hood's Croft	Four miles N.W. of Hathersage.	An old sheep shelter and field under Lead Hill.	Derbyshire
Robin Hood's Peniston	Located now in a quarry on the north side of the Nettlepot - Wenmer Gill road in Lunedale.	On the modern O.S. map shown as Robin Hood's Stone. The only one so far found in County Durham.	County Durham
Robin's Butts	Bardon Hill near Coalville.	This was a farmhouse recorded in 1842 but by 1877 this had been obliterated by the great quarry on Bardon Hill.	Leicestershire
Robin-A-Tiptoe Hill	N.W. of Uppingham		Leicestershire
Robin Hood's Field	Whitwell		Rutland
Robin Hood's Cave	East of Oakham		Rutland
Robin Hood's Cross	Castle Bytham		Rutland
Robin Hood's Cave	2 miles north of Ollerton, nr. Walesby, on 'Robin Hood Way' 40 km N.W. of Nottingham.	A cave near the river Maun in Walesby parish, the name is found on an O.S. map about 1825.'Robin Hood Way' is a recent name related to a tourist walking track.	Nottinghamshire
Robin Hood's Close	Nottingham	1485 - 'Robynhode Closse' first reference to a Robin Hood Place-name in Nottingham8	Nottinghamshire
Robin Hood's Hills	4 miles S.W. of Mansfield.	Recorded in 1775, A small group of hills forming a natural amphitheatre in Sherwood Forest, closely associated with a neighbouring Robin Hood's Chair and Cave [see below]	Nottinghamshire
Robin Hood's Cave, Chair and Well	4 miles S.W. of Mansfield, Near Annesley.	A cave at the foot of Robin Hood's Hills [Annesley Hills] in Sherwood Forest..	Nottinghamshire
Robin Hood's Pot	On Robin Hood's Hill, Near a Hillfort at Oldox	Tumulus or previously a stone cross base.	Nottinghamshire
Robin Hood's Cross	Near Pleasley Mill	Robin Hood's Cross. The remains of the cross are still extant.	Nottinghamshire
Robin Hood's stone	Near Newstead Abbey	Demolished.	Nottinghamshire
Robin Hood's Stable[s]	7 miles north of Nottingham. A cave cut into rock one mile north of Papplewick Church	Papplewick is the southern gateway to Sherwood, Papplewick lies near the King's Great Way.	Nottinghamshire
Robin Hood's Well	7 miles N.W. of Nottingham, Five miles west of Papplewick.	A well in High Park Wood, to the immediate north of Beauvale Priory and in Greasley parish.	Nottinghamshire
Robin Hood's Acre	Nottingham	Mentioned in 1624-1625.	Nottinghamshire
Robin Hood's Cave	Nr. Rufford Abbey and Ollerton near Wellow	A shelter	Nottinghamshire
Robin Hood's Larder	Three miles west of Ollerton	A large tree in that part of Sherwood Forest called 'Birklands', where Robin Hood was alleged to have hung venison on wooden hooks. The tree was also called 'The Shambles'. This tree collapsed in the 1950's. The Major Oak lies a mile to the east, which is also associated with the legendary outlaw.	Nottinghamshire
Robin Hood's Whetstone	Between Clipstone and Rufford	A boundary stone between two parishes now an eminence	Nottinghamshire
Robin Hood's Seat	Between Kirkby in Ashfield and Annesley.	In the Robin Hood Hills a boulder where tradition says Robin sat waiting for wealthy travellers. Now destroyed for use in building Newstead Abbey.	Nottinghamshire
Robin Hood Farm	6 miles north of Nottingham.	A farm towards the southern end of Sherwood Forest from 1826, associated with a 'Robin Hood's Bank' of 1840.	Nottinghamshire
Robin Hood Hill	Four miles west of Southwell	A tumulus one mile north of the village of Oxton, probably the same as 'Robin Hood Pit' on an O.S. map of about 1825.	Nottinghamshire
Robin Hood's Grave	7 miles north of Mansfield	Apparently a cave in Holbeck parish, appearing as 'Robin's Grave' about 1840.	Nottinghamshire
Robin Hood's Well	North of Little Badworth	A spring which once lay within  the forest of Delamere.	Cheshire
Robin Hood's Stoop	One and a half miles S.W. of Hathersage, Derbyshire.	An old boundary stone, perhaps originally a medieval cross on Offerton Moor. Later alleged to be the place from which Robin Hood shot an arrow into Hathersage Churchyard over 2000 yards away.10 stoop means 'post'.	Derbyshire
Robin Hood' s Meadow	2 miles north of Ollerton	A field name in the vicinity of Perlethorpe.10	Nottinghamshire
Loxley [Lockesley/Locksley]	3 miles N.W of Sheffield, South Yorkshire.	Joseph Hunter1 said ' ...the fairest pretensions to be the Locksley of our ballads, where was born the redoubtable Robin Hood. The remains of the house in which it was pretended he was born were formerly pointed out in a small wood [Bar Wood]...'	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Well	Two and a half miles S.E. of Hathersage, nr. Nether Padley and Longshaw Lodge not far from Hathersage Road and Little John's well.	A spring near Little John's Well, another spring which drains Totley Moss. First recorded 1809.10	Derbyshire
Robin Hood's Well [later St. Anne's Well]	Nottingham	Here the supposed outlaw's chair, cap, bow, arrows and slipper were displayed for travellers, first recorded 1500 as 'Robynhode Well'.8	Nottinghamshire
Hood Green	Stainborough & Wentworth Castles	South yorkshire	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's well	Near Penhill Beacon, Melmerby Moor, Coverdale, North Yorkshire.	A well at the source  of a hill stream on Melmersby Moor, North Yorkshire	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Well	One and a half miles north of Halton Gill, north of Pen-y-ghent.	A well high in the Yorkshire Pennines.
Robin Hood's Well	near Malham, Wharfedale	West Yorkshire	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Well	one and a half miles N. of Threshfield, Wharfedale.	A well near the road from Threshfield and Kilnsey. Also recorded as 'Robin Hood's Beck'.	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Well	Nr. Beauvale Priory and Underwood.	A spring	Nottinghamshire
Robin Hood's Well	Eller Carr Moss, Littondale, upper reaches of Wharfedale, N. Yorkshire.	West Yorkshire	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Well	3 miles south of Wensley, West Witton, Wensleydale	A spring	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Well	2 miles west of Haworth	Recorded near Stanbury village, in the Pennines.	Yorkshire
Robin Hood	5 miles N.W. of Wigan and N. of Appleby Bridge.	A hamlet and farm at a crossroads one mile south of Wrightington.	Lancashire
Robin Park	North of Wigan		Lancashire
Robin Hood' Cross	7 miles N.W. of Wigan, a cross near the village of Mawdesley.	Possibly associated with Robin Hood [above] less than two miles away.	Lancashire
Robin Hood's Well	Near Helmshore, margins of the Forest of Rossendale.9	See John Crawshaw's page	Lancashire
Robin Hood's Stone	Allerton, Liverpool.	A cup and ring stone, probably Bronze Age.	Lancashire
Robin Hood's Bed	5 miles N.E. of Rochdale	The name is applied to the whole or part of the prominent Blackstone Edge in the Pennines, neolithic flints have been found here.	Lancashire
Robin Hood Lane	Wrightington, Wigan		Lancashire
Robin Hood Lane	Part of the Old Chester Road off the A 56 near Helsby, Cheshire		Cheshire
Robin Hood's Tump	Alpraham.	Bronze Age barrow [Tumulus].	Cheshire
Robin Hood's House	5 miles east of Burnley.	A ruined farm on the edge of Widdop Moor.	Lancashire
Robin Hoods Stride	N. of Elton and W. of Matlock near Hermit cave and rocky outcrops.  three miles south of Bakewell.	A group of broken gritstone rocks on Hartle Moor, the distance between two of the rocks was allegedly the length of Robin Hood's  stride or step. Also known as 'Mock Beggars Hall' because of the supposed similarity of the two rocks to chimneys. Appears in an enclosure award of 1819.10	Derbyshire
Robin Hood hamlet,  farm and plantation.	between Hassop and Chesterfield.	Hamlet below Birchen edge in Derbyshire. Above Birchen Edge at least 7 cairns, a tumulus, 2 field systems and Whibbersley Cross.	Derbyshire
Robin Hood's Table	Six miles N.W. of Chesterfield	Two slabs of gritstone forming a low platform in the upper Bar Brook valley among the moors north of Chatsworth. They lie close to a spring and according to Mitchell11 were used by a Duke of Rutland who held shooting parties there in the 1860's.	Derbyshire
Robin Hood's Tower	A tower  projecting from the curtain wall of Richmond Castle, built 1075, North Yorkshire.	The name may only have been given after the 1400's.	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Well	Near Skelbrooke, South Yorkshire	Near the former hamlet of Robin Hood's Well and Burghwallis, Barnsdale. Possibly the origin for naming all other wells by this name. The well ,was a clear spring probably utilised by the Romans who had an auxilliary fortlet here for whom it is likelt to have been a sacred spring. The present site of the monument on a lay-by of the A1 was moved when the Great North Road was deviated slightly to the east of the course of the original Roman road. Taylor and Dobson conflated this with 'Robin Hood's Stone' which lay to the north on Sleep Hill Fields.	South Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Stone.	Sleep Hill Fields, near Barnsdale Bar.	First mentioned in a document of 1422 from the priory of Magdalena De Lund [Monk Bretton], South Yorkshire. Sometimes confused with Robin hood's Well, a little further south east.	Yorkshire
Robin Lane	Between Hemsworth and South Hiendley		South Yorkshre.
Robin Hood's Stream	Highfields Woods/Park  or Hanging Woods	Springs from near Roman Rigg running into Pickburn and Langthwaite Dyke, Adwick-Le-Street, South Barnsdale, South Yorkshire.	South Yorkshire
Robin Hood Bridge	Near Wrenthorpe, North of Wakefield	the railway bridge next to Outwood Grange School	Yorkshire
Robin Hood House (sometimes Robin Hood Farm)	Near Wrenthorpe, North of Wakefield	On the site of the Thompson Drive estate	Yorkshire
Robin Hood	Near Wrenthorpe, North of Wakefield	Triangular area bounded by Bradford/Wakefield road, railway and Potovens Lane	Yorkshire
Robin Hood Well	Near Wrenthorpe, North of Wakefield	At Robin Hood House	Yorkshire
Robin Hood(s) Hill	Near Wrenthorpe, North of Wakefield	A hill west of Outwood village, 1657. Dobson and Taylor equate this with  'Robinhoodstreteclose' in a W.C.R. of 1650 and called 'Robbin Hood Hill' in 1657. the hill of Potovens Lane. Potovens is now called Wrenthorpe.  Potovens Lane is now called Robin Hood Lane. The later Robin hood Railway Bridge is named after the crossing with the lane. Robin Hood House is nearby.	Yorkshire
Robinhood Strete Close	2 miles north of Wakefield, south of Newton.	First recorded 1650, may equate to Robin Hood Hill near Wrenthorpe.	Yorkshire
Robin Hood Terrace	Near Wrenthorpe, North of Wakefield	a row of early twentieth century houses in Potovens Lane	Yorkshire
Robin Hood Cottage	Near Wrenthorpe, North of Wakefield	A cottage in Potovens Lane close to the junction of Thompson Drive	Yorkshire
Robin Hood Row.	Near Wrenthorpe, North of Wakefield	terraced houses opposite the Wheel Public House. A name plaque and date stone with the year 1868 was removed when the house on the far left of the terrace had replacement windows fitted in 1983.	Yorkshire
Robin Hoods Well	Barwood, near Loxley, South Yorkshire	"A well of fine clear water rising near the bed of the river"1.	Yorkshire
"Robin Hood and Little John"	Loxley, South Yorkshire.	Public House noted by Hunter in Hallamshire1.	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Spring	Loxley, South Yorkshire.	Two to 3 miles N.W. of the hamlet of Loxley1.	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Moss and Bower.	4 miles north of Sheffield near Loxley, South Yorkshire.	A large part of the moorland1 overlooking the Derwent Dams in the High Peak. The exact site seems to be lost. Also Robin Hood's Bower in Ecclesfield. It appears in 1637 as 'Robin Hood's Bower, Bower Wood'.10	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Penny Stone	5 miles N.W. of Halifax, Wainstalls, Midgley Moor, West Yorkshire.	A large boulder, loggan or rocking-stone described by Watson3,which is said to be the site of a meeting place for Robin Hood.  This may have been a plague stone - where those inflicted with the plague placed money - soaked in vinegar to disinfect the coins - in exchange for food left by those yet unaffected by the disease	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Penny Stone	2 miles west of Halifax.	A stone possibly located near grid reference 058248.10	Yorkshire
Robin Hood	1 mile  north of Catterick Bridge on the Roman road "Saxty Way".	A hamlet in North Yorkshire	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Butts	2 miles south of Robin Hood's Bay.	three tumuli about 1 mile from the sea and 775 feet above sea-level., south of the beacon at Stoupe Brow. They may have derived their name from Robin Hood's Bay.10	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Butts	On Danby Low Moor 3 km north of Danby, North Yorkshire.	Probably three tumuli, which could have been later used as archery butts.	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Butts	6 miles west of Barnard Castle.	Mounds of this name are found in the parish of Romaldkirk.	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Hill & house	One and a half miles south of Huddersfield on the S.W. slope of Castle Hill near Almondbury, West Yorkshire	A hill and house at Berry Brow near Almondbury. Te local railway tunnel is named 'Robin Hood Tunnel'.	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Butts	Off the 'Port Way' , Long Mynd, Church Stretton.	A group of Tumuli on the edge of Long Mynd.	Shropshire
Robin Hood's Walk	Boston - The narrow winding lane, which was formerly the bed of the Scirebeck, and still is the boundary between Boston and Skirbeck, is first mentioned in the Corporation Records as Robin Hood's Walk, in 1640.* We do not know the origin of this name. [The History of the Antiquities of Boston, p. 466.] * still so called with Marian Road, Friar Way, Greenwood Drive, Sheriff Way, Sherwood Avenue, Forest Dale and a sinuous northern extension of Robin Hood's Walk now off Sheriff Way.	In a map of the parish of Skirbeck, dated 1725, the boundary between it and Boston is exactly as we suppose it to have been when the separation between the two was first made, particularly as relates to the Scirebeck. -  In this map we find the following names given to parts of the parish :—the lane leading from Maud Foster drain to High Hills and the northern extremity of Robin Hood's Walk, is called Felon's Gate : a piece of open ground near the present Bargate Bridge is called Watch-house Hill ; and the bridge, which formerly crossed the Scirebeck in Bargate, is named Pedder's Bridge.	Lincolnshire
Robin Hood's Cottage	Near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.	In Kirklees Park.	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Butts	Near Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire	Butts or raised earthen mounds were often raised for archery practice.	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Butts	Near a Roman signal station  north of Hadrian's Wall on the line of a Roman road from Birdoswald to Bewcastle.	Also called 'The Butt'	Cumbria
The Robin Hood and Little John Inn	Hatfield Woodhouse, South Yorkshire.	An inn of the 1500's, local tradition says there is an historic link with R.H.5	Yorkshire
Robin Hood	Near Shap Abbey, Westmorland.		Westmorland
Robin Hood's Picking Rods	Two and a half miles South west of Glossop, between Chesworth and Rowarth	Two stone pillars in a stone socket on Ludworth Moor.Probably a boundary marker. Found on the 1842 O.S. map.	Derbyshire
Robin Hood's Well	Melmedy Moor, Wensleydale, Yorkshire.	Near Middleham Castle & Templar Chapel.	Yorkshire
Robin Hood's Well7	Pendle Hill, Lancashire.	A spring issues from a Carboniferous limestone boundary with the overlying grit. A Holy well was marked with a cross in medieval times. The name is from Robin Goodfellow a Cetic sprite, later becoming Robin Hood when the ballads became popular. Sometimes known as Fox's Well. George Fox drank here, saw God on Pendle Hill and founded the Quaker movement6.	Lancashire
Robin Hood	On the Left bank of the river Thames, near Reading.	Found adjacent to a place named 'Little John'.	Berkshire.
Robin Hood's Arbour/ Bower	Maidenhead.	A square prehistoric earthwork, called Robin Hood's Bower in the late 1600's. 1556 - First recorded by a churchwarden of Abingdon and mentions the establishment of a bower.	Berkshire
Robin Hood's  Walk	Richmond	First recorded in 1550's, one hundred and fifty years before any in Sherwood.	Surrey
Robin Hood's Buttes	Two miles S.E. of Brampton.	First recorded in 1598 two years before any site in  Sherwood.	Cumberland. [Phillips and Keatman refer to this as being in Scotland, which in early medieval times it was, p. 45]8
Robin Hood's Chair	Ennerdale Water.		Cumberland.
Robin Hood Field	Five miles S.W. of Runcorn	Field name in the parish of Helsby	Cheshire
Robinhood End	Two miles N.E. of Finchingfield.	A small hamlet in the parish of Finchingfield, appears in an unpublished deed as "Robyne Hoods End" as early as 1699.10	Esssex
Robinhood End Farm	Two and a half miles N.E. of Finchingfield.	Half a mile north of Robinhood End, in the parish of Stambourne. On a map of Essex, 1777.10	Esssex
Robins Wood Hill	One mile S.E. of Gloucester	A prominent hill with beacon in the parish of Matson and overlooking Gloucester. Also known as 'Matson Hill'. 1624 appears as 'Robinhoodes Hill'. It may have been named after a local family of 'Robins'.10	Gloucestershire.
Robin Hood's Barrow	Bournemouth	A tumulus in Talbot Woods to the north of Meyrick Park.	Hampshire
Robin Hood House	Three miles north of Berkhampstead	Formerly the village inn, the 'Robin Hood' of Little Gaddesden	Hertfordshire
Robin Hood's Butts	Three miles east of Weobley	Two round topped natural hills.	Herefordshire
The Robin Hood or Robin Hood & Little John	An inn on the edge of Buckmore Park, not far from the Rochester-Maidstone road.		Kent
Sherwood, Robin Wood and Robingate	Pembury	One continuous area of woodland	Kent
Hostel robin Hod	London A.D. 1294	An Inn seemingly named after a London. councillor, Robert Hod. Robert's daughter may have been Katherine Robyn Hod recorded in 1325.	London
Robin Hood Lane	London E14	A street name in poplar recorded in 1703.	London
Robin Hood Yard	London EC1	A small lane off Leather Lane, immediately N. of Holborn. This is a mere 200 yards from Shoe Lane.	London
Robin Hood Court	Cordwainer Ward	A lost Robin Hood name, a court running west out of Bow Lane destroyed during the construction of Queen Victoria Street. It was recrded in 1677 and by 1746 was known as 'Robin Wood's Court'.	London
Robin Hood Court	Cripplegate Ward without.	A lost Robin Hood name, one of two small courts running west out of Milton Street in 1677, the name changed to 'Haberdasher's Square' in 1720.	London
Robin Hood Court	Cheap Ward and Cripplegate ward within.	A lost Robin Hood name, a court running east out of Milk Street, first known by this name in 1810, earlier known as 'Robinson's Court [1677] and 'Robinhood Alley [1720-1799].10	London
Robin Hood Court	Farringdon Ward within.	A lost Robin Hood name, a court running west out of Shoe Lane, first recorded in 1677, by 1746 it was known as 'Robin-Wood's Court'.10 Shoe Lane was the London residence of Henry De Laci, 3rd earl of Lincoln. Henry provided the nearby Lincoln's Inn Court with its name. It was Henry who was Lord of Pontefract when Robert III Butler was operating as a robber cut-throat in the Barnsdale area in the late 1200's see: Robert III Butler of Skelbrooke	London
Robin Hood Court	Queenhithe Ward	Alost Robin Hood name, a court running out of Thames Street, recorded from 1677 to 1799, later destroyed to construct Trig Wharf.	London
Robin Friend	1 mile north of Sheringham	Flat rocks off the Norfolk coast which appear to have been associated with the Robin Hood legend.	Norfolk
Robin Hood and Little John	3 miles west of Peterborough	The names of two stones in Castor Field near Gunwade Ferry, now covered with thorn bushes.	Northamptonshire
Robin Hood's Stone	Near Gunwade Ferry, S.E. of Stamford		Northamptonshire
Robin Hood's Bog	1 mile east of Chillingham.	A bog or marsh situated in the woods on the N.E. edge of Chillingham Park.	Northumberland
Robin Hood's Rock	three and a half miles N. of Dunstanburgh	A small rock formed from a basalt sill 500 yards off the Northumberland Coast, usually called 'Robin Wood's Rock'.	Northumberland
Robin Hood's Butts	7 miles south of Taunton.	Three long barrows near Otterford, and close to the Chard and Wellington road.	Somerset
Robin Hood's Butts	3 miles north of Godalming	Two hills now known as Budburrow and Rowbury Hills, to the N.E. of the village of Compton. They were called 'Robin Hood's Butts' by Aubrey in 1673.	Surrey
Richmond Park :   i] Robinhood Walk 1548  ii} Robinhood Gate 1785 iii] Robinhood Farm 1785 iv] Robin Hood  v] Robin Hood Way		Richmond Park  is associated with the Robin Hood legend from the time of Henry VIII when he patronised the outlaws role in the May games here in the early 1500's	Surrey
Robin Hoods Farm	10 miles south of Birmingham. A farm near Tanworth.	So named in 1830 O.S. map.	Warwickshire
Loxley	3 miles S.E. of Stratford-on-Avon.	Said to be the birth-place of Robin Hood by J.R. Planche.13 Where Planche elaborated upon Stukeley's fictitious attempt to make Robin Hood a descendant of the FitzOoths, and associated R.H. with Robert FitzOdo, lord of Loxley manor in the late 1100's.14	Warwickshire
Robin Hood	A hill, 6 miles S.W. of Shap and south of Shap Fell	A hill near Shap Abbey. It appears in the 1865 O.S. map and as 'Robin Hood's Wood' on the 1859 O.S. map.	Westmorland.
Robin Hood's Grave	On a windswept moorland - two and a half miles south of Crosby Ravensworth Fell, one mile North of Orton.	This is a cairn and appears on the 1859 O.S. map. It may be related to 'Howe Robin' half a mile away.10	Westmorland.
Robin Hood Island	3 miles S.W. of Kendal	Appears in a rental of 1836.10	Westmorland.
Robin Hood's Wood	3 miles S.W. of Kendal.	Appears on the 1857 O.S. map.10	Westmorland.
Robin Hood Ball	12 miles south of Marlborough	A Neolithic tumulus at Netheravon, possibly used as a boundary mark. Occurs as 'Robin Wood Ball' in a publication of 1773.10	Wiltshire
Robin Hood's Bower	2 miles south of Warminster.	A circular earthwork in Southleigh Wood just south of Warminster.10	Wiltshire

The significant point to make here is that almost all of the early sites are in Yorkshire and Derbyshire, not Nottinghamshire. The earliest recorded Robin Hood place-name in the shire of Nottingham is in the year 1485.

A rarity, Because (Friar) Tuck is not often mentioned in the landscape is one from Eastwick, hertfordshire named 'Tuck's Spring' located in a small wood just north of Eastwick Hall Farm and near Cockrobin Lane. The area was considerably disturbed during WWII when gun emplacements were built here to protect the airfield.

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