English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Robin Hood's Arbour

Other OS name in the Parish of Maidenhead

Etymology

, a fanciful name applied to a prehistoric earthwork , v. M . Aylwin Cotton , ' Robin Hood 's Arbour : and Rectilinear Enclosures in Berkshire', ArchJ 59 ; Mrs Cotton notes that the name is first recorded in 1861 .