Loxley, Warwickshire
Loxley, Warwickshire, is a village and
East Greenwich
.
A
village school was built in the 1830s. In the 1850s, the former parish lands were divided between seven farms. In 1910 the village had 59 households. As of 2011, there were 150 households with a total population of 399.[2] While the Robin Hood is mostly associated with Loxley, Graham Phillips and Martin Keatman in their Robin Hood The Man Behind The Myth (1995) suggested that a certain Robert Fitz Oto of Loxley manor was "the true Robin Hood".[3] Historian David Baldwin in his Robin Hood: The English Outlaw Unmasked (2010) proposed Roger Godberd, who is buried in Loxley.[4]
Notable residents
- George Huddesford had "the living" at Loxley at the beginning of the nineteenth century.[5]
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Loxley, Warwickshire.
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 29 December 2015.
- ^ 2011 Census Profile for Loxley CP with Stratford[permanent dead link]
- ^ In the Footsteps of Robin Hood, Channel4.com, accessed February 2010
- ^ "Final word: Reconstructing Robin". The Sunday Times. 3 April 2011. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
- ^ W. P. Courtney, ‘Huddesford, George (bap. 1749, d. 1809)’, rev. S. C. Bushell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 6 February 2010.
External links
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