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Sherwood Forest Plantation Foundation is located on the north bank of the James River in Charles City County, Virginia. The main plantation house, built in 1730, was the home of the tenth president of the United States , John Tyler (1790–1862) for the last twenty years of his life.
Sherwood Forest is located in the central area of the San Fernando Valley region in the City of Los Angeles; it is within the Northridge South Neighborhood Council District. [2] The neighborhood is bounded by Nordhoff Street in the north, Balboa Boulevard in the east, the Southern Pacific Railroad in the south, and Lindley Avenue in the west. [ 3 ]
Lake Sherwood lies just west of several major movie ranches and has frequently been used as a filming location for television shows like The Dukes of Hazzard, The Rockford Files, and Little House on the Prairie. Lake Sherwood was named from being the location for Sherwood Forest in the 1922 film, Robin Hood, starring Douglas Fairbanks. [8]
sailing in Sherwood Forest. The 9-hole Sherwood Forest Golf Course was designed by Herbert Strong and opened in 1919. [5] The community had an additional 18-hole golf course, which was sold, and later added to the neighboring community, The Downs on the Severn. The Sherwood Forest Club runs a summer camp for the children of its residents.
Sherwood Forest is open to the public seven days a week, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Kittiewan , originally known as Millford, overlooking Kittiewan Creek and the James River, is a typical Colonial-period medium-size wood-frame plantation house characteristic of the Virginia Tidewater.
The Major Oak is a large English oak (Quercus robur) near the village of Edwinstowe in the midst of Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, England.According to local folklore, it was Robin Hood's shelter where he and his merry men slept.
The oak tree was located in Birklands, part of Sherwood Forest that was first mentioned in 1251 and in continual ownership by the crown for 600 years. [1] It was situated approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) west of the village of Ollerton and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of the Major Oak.