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The name might even have evolved as a convenient summary for the actions of a whole bunch of people.
Also, maybe the idea even was to "create" Robin Hood in order to send the authorities at the time on a wild goose chase for a non-existent person.

Robin of Loxley ? Loxley is a village and a suburb of the city of Sheffield, England. So yeah perhaps !, lol Loxley is a little north of Nottingham ...
just sayin, lol

It's more than a little North IMO but it depends on your own definition since England is pretty small in size geographically.