Rotherwood Street

Rotherwood Street is named after the Rotherwood estate in ''Ivanhoe. ''The estate is owned by Cedric the Saxon. Within the novel, some time is spent within Cedric's Hall at Rotherwood as we are introduced to some of the main characters of the story including Cedric, Rowena the Saxon princess, Issac the Jew, and the Templar, Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert.

We also meet Wilfred of Ivanhoe in Rotherwood, but because he is in disguise as a palmer, we are not aware that this is the novel's hero character.

Rotherwood Street is parallel to Saxon Street and Rowena Street. Because the estate that Rotherwood Street is named after is ruled by a Saxon noble, we can speculate that this is a connection that was made on purpose when deciding on the street names.

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