MODERN signposting on the A4136 Gloucester-Monmouth near Edge End might well be warning travellers to look out for a bold robber in Lincoln Green.

But wait a minute, merry men of the highways department, wasn't Robin Hood an inhabitant of Sherwood Forest rather than the Forest of Dean?

Perhaps the tourism department of the Gloucestershire County Council has annexed the folk hero who robbed from the rich to give to the poor to add some extra "pull" to our Forest?

Reader Bob Ranscombe of Wyesham, Monmouth, is one among many who have known the area all their lives as Robin's Wood, and this has given its name to the familiar junction.

He writes: "My 80-year-old aunt who lives at Edge End has also confirmed that as long as she can remember the area has always been known as Robin's Wood.

"Let's keep the real name and let Robin Hood rest in peace in Sherwood Forest!"

•Edge End has just won reductions in speed limits from 60mph to 40mph along a stretch of the A4136 and also in High Beech Avenue, part of the B4028, after residents petitioned to make the roads safer.