Lincoln green

Lincoln green is the colour of dyed woollen cloth associated with Robin Hood and his merry men in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire. The dyers of Lincoln, a cloth town in the high Middle Ages, produced the cloth by dyeing it with woad (Isatis tinctoria) to give it a strong blue, then overdyeing it yellow with weld (Reseda luteola) or dyers' broom, Genista tinctoria. "Coventry blue" and "Kendall green" were also colours linked with the dyers of English towns.

The colour is a deep warm olive green.

The first recorded use of Lincoln green as a colour name in English was in 1510.

By the late sixteenth century, Lincoln green was a thing of the past, for Michael Drayton provided a sidenote in his Poly-Olbion (published 1612): "Lincoln anciently dyed the best green in England." Cloth of Lincoln green was more pleasing than undyed shepherd's gray cloth: "When they were clothed in Lyncolne grene they kest away their gray", according to A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode, ca 1510, and Lincoln green betokened an old-fashioned forester even in the fancy dress of Edmund Spenser's The Faery Queene:

Lincoln Green

Coordinates: 53°48′18″N 1°31′08″W / 53.805°N 1.519°W / 53.805; -1.519

Lincoln Green is an area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The area is mainly residential with a small local shopping centre. The area also has a public house, The Harp, and a working men's club, The North Leeds WMC. Most housing in Lincoln Green is council-owned high-rise flats; these are in a significantly worse condition then those in other areas of the city. Lincoln Green is one of the most deprived areas of the city. Lincoln Green used to have a secondary school, Agnes Stewart C of E Secondary School, but this closed in July 2006.Primrose High School in neighbouring Burmantofts is close by. Lincoln Green is to be featured on the ITV programme Seven Days on the Breadline.

The area's shopping centre was opened on 3 November 1962 by Pat Phoenix (Elsie Tanner from Coronation Street ).

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Lincoln Green (New Zealand)

Lincoln Green is a cricket ground in Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand. The ground is located directly next to the Bert Sutcliffe Oval and forms part of the New Zealand Cricket Academy. The first recorded match on the ground came when New Zealand Women played New Zealand A Women team in February 1997. Later that year the ground held its first first-class match when the New Zealand Academy cricket team played Bangladesh, which the academy won against their opponents who had yet to gain Test status by an innings and 115 runs. Late the following year, the Academy played Pakistan A. Two further first-class matches were later held there in the 1998/99 Shell Conference when the Southern Conference played the Central Conference and the Northern Conference. The final first-class match held there came in 1999 when New Zealand A played the touring South Africans.

The ground held nine Women's One Day Internationals during the 2000 Women's World Cup. Two years later the ground held six Youth One Day Internationals in the 2002 Under-19 World Cup.