Lancashire place-names

From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Adm. div.
Full name Lancashire
Abbreviation Lancs
Coordinate 53.732212, -2.624788
Area (1801) 4934.012334 km2[1]
Population (1801) 673486[1]
Loading map...
Localities named after Robin Hood (or members of his band) in Lancashire. Click cluster marker for locality markers. Click locality marker for link to page. Historical county boundary co­ordi­nates provided by the Historic Counties Trust.
Viewing choropleth • View choropleth • View choropleth • About the choropleths. County boundary data provided by the Historic Counties Trust.

"Area","Thoroughfare","Area","Public house","Natural feature","Area","Thoroughfare","Area","Area","Area","Area","Area","Public house","Settlement","Public house","Public house","Public house","Public house","Public house","Public house","Public house","Natural feature","Public house","Public house","Public house","Public house","Public house","Public house","Public house","Public house","Public house","Public house","Establishment","Establishment","Building","Area","Building","Public house","Establishment","Public house","Public house","Public house","Public house","Public house","Public house","Thoroughfare","Establishment","Establishment","Establishment","Transport","Thoroughfare","Natural feature","Public house","Artifact","Natural feature","Monument","Area","Building","Natural feature","Monument","Monument","Natural feature","Natural feature","Natural feature","Natural feature","Natural feature","Natural feature","Thoroughfare","Thoroughfare",

"","","","20th","19th","19th","20th","19th","19th","","","","19th","19th","","19th","19th","18th","19th","","19th","19th","20th","19th","20th","19th","19th","19th","19th","19th","19th","19th","20th","20th","19th","19th","19th","19th","20th","19th","20th","","19th","19th","","19th","19th","19th","20th","19th","20th","19th","19th","","18th","19th","19th","19th","19th","19th","20th","19th","19th","20th","20th","19th","19th","19th","",

"Miscellaneous","Miscellaneous","Literary locale","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Literary locale","Literary locale","Literary locale","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Artifacts","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Robin Hood name","Miscellaneous",

"Extant","Extant","Extant","Defunct","Defunct","Defunct","Extant","Defunct","Defunct","Defunct","Defunct","Defunct","Defunct","Extant","Extant","Defunct","Defunct","Extant","Defunct","Defunct","Defunct","Defunct","Defunct","Defunct","Extant","Defunct","Defunct","Defunct","Defunct","Extant","Extant","Extant","Extant","Defunct","Extant","Extant","Extant","Defunct","Defunct","Defunct","Defunct","Extant","Extant","Extant","Extant","Extant","Defunct","Defunct","Defunct","Extant","Extant","Defunct","Defunct","Defunct","Extant","Defunct","Defunct","Extant","Extant","Defunct","Extant","Extant","Extant","Defunct","Defunct","Extant","Extant","Defunct","Extant",

Robin Hood (Ashton-in-Makerfield)¤|Robin Hood (Church Street, Manchester)¤|Robin Hood (Leigh)¤|Robin Hood Inn (Barrow-in-Furness)¤|Robin Hood Inn (Wigan)¤|Sherwood Close (Tottington)¤|Lancashire¤1500|Robin Hood's Bed (Blackstone Edge)¤1775|Robin Hood (Cheetham Hill, Manchester)¤1794|Robin Hood (Bolton)¤1818|Robin Hood's Arrows (Chetham's Library)¤1827|Robin Hood's Quoit (Monston Edge)¤1831|Robin Hood's Well (Whitworth)¤1831|Robin Hood Mills (Bolton)¤1836|Robin Hood (Tottington)¤1838|Little John's Meadow (Kirkby)¤1839|Plumpton Park (Westby-with-Plumptons)¤1839|Robin Hood (Bradley Fold)¤1839|Little John's Croft (Warton)¤1841|Robin Hood (Appley Bridge)¤1841|Robin Hood Croft (Appley Bridge)¤1841|Plumpton Park (Speke)¤1842|Robin Hood Inn (Helmshore)¤1844|Plumpton Park Moss (Tarleton)¤1845|Robin Hood (Stretford, Manchester) (1)¤1845|Robin Hood's Hey (Burscough)¤1845|Robin Hood Farm (Leigh)¤1846|Robin Hood Inn (Mawdesley)¤1847|Robin Hood Well (Mawdesley)¤1847|Little John Hall (Tatham)¤1848|Robin Hood's House (Extwistle)¤1848|Robin Hood's Well (Extwistle)¤1848|Robin Hood (Helmshore)¤1849|Robin Hood and Little Jack (Burtonwood)¤1849|Robin Hood (Swinton)¤1850|Robin Hood's Stone (Allerton, Liverpool) (1)¤1850|Robin Hood's Well (Helmshore)¤1850|Little John (Hampsfield)¤1851|Robin Hood (Ancoats, Manchester)¤1851|Robin Hood (Hampsfield)¤1851|Robin Hood's Well Clough (Whitworth)¤1851|Robin Hood (Newton Heath, Manchester)¤1861|Robin Hood (Chorlton on Medlock, Manchester)¤1867|Robin Hood (London Road, Manchester)¤1871|Robin Hood (Lower Broughton, Manchester)¤1871|Robin Hood (Gorton, Manchester)¤1876|Robin Hood Hotel (Chorley)¤1876|Robinhood Lane (Mawdesley)¤1881|Robin Hood Mine (Swinton)¤1892|Kirklees (Tottington)¤1893|Kirklees Street (Tottington)¤1893|Robin Hood Siding (Swinton)¤1893|Robin Hood Cottage (Mawdesley)¤1894|Robin Hood Farm (Appley Bridge)¤1894|Robin Hood Lane (Appley Bridge)¤1894|Robin Hood (Stretford, Manchester) (2)¤1898|Robin Hood's Cross (Mawdesley)¤1899|Robin Hood (Harpurhey)¤1911|Little John Street (Manchester)¤1918|Robin Hood Street (Cheetham Hill, Manchester)¤1922|Little John (Bolton)¤1923|Robin Hood Hotel (Moss Side, Manchester)¤1925|Robin Hood's Well (Pendle Hill)¤1925|Robin Hood's Well (Higham)¤1926|Robin Hood's Stone (Allerton, Liverpool) (2)¤1928|Robin Hood Brewery (Tottington)¤1930|Robin Hood Screening Plant (Swinton)¤1932|Robin Hood Hotel (Blackpool)¤1960|Robin Hood Beds (Stretford, Manchester)¤1984|

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-19. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-05-27.

Flag-lancashire.png

County description

The Historic Counties Trust describes Lancashire as follows:

Lancashire is a large and heavily populated county, in population second only to Middlesex. Lancashire runs up the English west coast from the Mersey north to Morecambe Bay with a further part north of the sands at Furness. Lancashire was at the heart of the Industrial Revolution, its cotton mills supplying the Empire and the World. Although competition and changed technology have swept many of the great mills away nevertheless Lancashire is still home to industrial might, and the great towns and cities which grew up in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries still thrive. Away from the industrial and urban areas, Lancashire contains scenery of much beauty and jarring contrasts. The Furness district in the north sits on the sea at Barrow in Furness, a shipyard and industrial town. Behind Barrow though is a land of lakeland fells, forested and mountainous, forming part of the Lake District. Coniston Water, and most of Windermere lie in this part of Lancashire. In the northern part of Lancashire's main body lies Lancaster itself, a modest county town tumbling charmingly down its hill from the Castle to the River Lune. Here the county is fairly narrow, the Pennine Mountains approaching the sea, and the Yorkshire border with them. Between Morecambe Bay and the Ribble Valley, Fylde reaches westward, a broad, flat peninsula whose inland parts are farmland but whose coast is a string of holiday resorts centered on the best known of them all; Blackpool. Lancashire broadens further south. The coast from the Ribble towards the conurbations of the south has more modest coastal resorts. Inland farmland begins to jostle with industrial towns, the latter becoming bigger and closer together until the great industrial conurbations of south Lancashire. In the southernmost part of the county are Liverpool and Manchester, two of the greatest cities in Britain, whose suburbs spread across not just Lancashire but into Cheshire too. Liverpool, founded in 1207, was built around its vast docks from the Irish trade then the Atlantic and African trade routes. King John founded his new port at a marsh on the Mersey, at the point where the great gulf of the Mersey narrows again into a pinch before entering the Irish Sea. Now though great buildings stand on the waterside, the "three graces", and the city has spread all along the Mersey gulf and up the Irish Sea coast. Manchester is an older and a younger city; it was a town in Roman days and a fortress borough in Saxon times, but it only became a town of national and indeed world significance in the Victorian period, as the heart of the manufacturing revolution. An inland city, its civic arms show a ship and the crest shows the world covered in bees; Manchester's industry reaching the world. The Manchester Ship Canal does indeed link Manchester to the oceans, by way of the Mersey.

Main Towns: Barrow-in-Furness, Blackburn, Blackpool, Bolton, Bury, Liverpool, Manchester, Lancaster, Oldham, Preston, Rochdale, Salford, Southport, St Helens, Todmorden (part), Ulverston, Warrington, Widnes.
Main Rivers: Mersey, Ribble, Lune, Calder, Hodder, Wyre.
Highlights: Liverpool Anglican Cathedral; Manchester Town Hall; Pendle Hill; Ashton Memorial, Lancaster; Old Man of Coniston; Blackpool Pleasure Beach; Martin Mere nature reserve.
Highest Point: The Old Man of Coniston, 802.54 m.
Area: 4869.18 km2.[2]

Chronology

18th Century

2 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 18th century.

19th Century

42 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 19th century.

20th Century

13 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 20th century.

Literary locales

4 Literary locales.

Artifacts

1 Robin Hood-related artifact.

Miscellaneous

3 Miscellaneous place-names and localities.

All localities

69 Place-names and localities.

Place-name clusters

14 Clusters of Robin Hood place-names, localities with local traditions, literary locales etc.

Lists and gazetteers

Background

Neighbours

Notes