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8 unusual facts about Sherwood Forest


Lanner Falcon

Merret (1666) claimed that the "lanar" lived in Sherwood Forest and the Forest of Dean in England; such populations would seem to derive from escaped hunting birds of the nobility.

Lovejoy's islands

Sherwood Forest, an example of the small English forests that are islands of nature

Sherwood Forest

Experts believe it may also yield clues as to the boundary of the ancient Anglo Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria.

Sherwood, Oregon

According to post office records, Alexander was from Sherwood, Michigan, and this was the town that was named after Sherwood Forest England.

Indirectly named for the Sherwood Forest in England, it was first incorporated in 1893 as a town.

Son of the Guardsman

Son of the Guardsman is based on the Robin Hood legends, although it does not include Robin Hood, just the period and Sherwood Forest setting.

The serial is largely based on the Robin Hood legends, to the extent of including outlaws from Sherwood Forest, but it does not include or reference Robin Hood himself.

The Grey and Simcoe Foresters

Foresters are a very old form of infantry finding its antecedents in Robin Hood’s Sherwood Forest.


Beth Brown

She coordinated the first paranormal investigation of Monumental Church (Richmond, Virginia) and has, to date, conducted the only official study of Sherwood Forest (Charles City, Virginia), home of President John Tyler.


see also

Robin Hood Line

In mid-2009 Nottinghamshire County Council commissioned a feasibility study to consider a plan to extend the Robin Hood Line along this route by extending the current hourly service between Nottingham and Mansfield Woodhouse to Ollerton, calling at Shirebrook, Warsop and Edwinstowe (for Sherwood Forest Center Parcs holiday resort).

Sherwood Forest Plantation

In 1842 President John Tyler bought "Walnut Grove" from Collier Minge, his cousin and a local planter, and renamed the plantation "Sherwood Forest," as he likened himself to the story of Robin Hood regarding the Whig party.

Sherwood station

Sherwood Forest Railway, railway in the grounds of the Sherwood Forest Farm Park in Nottinghamshire, England

The Bandit of Sherwood Forest

The Bandit of Sherwood Forest is a 1946 film about the son of Robin Hood.