Robin Hood (Burham)
Locality | |
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Coordinate | 51.337853, 0.488217 |
Adm. div. | Kent |
Vicinity | 364 Common Road, Blue Bell Hill, Chatham; Burham Common |
Type | Public house |
Interest | Robin Hood name |
Status | Extant |
First Record | 1897 |
A.k.a. | The Robin Hood Pub; Robin Hood and Little John |

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-10-12. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-02-13.
The Robin Hood in Burham is located at the end of a short lane on the north side of Common Road. It has been in existence at least since 1897.Dobson & Taylor list the pub as "[a]n inn on the edge of Buckmore Park, not far from the Rochester-Maidstone road".[1] "Buckmore Park" is labelled "Buckmore Wood" on the O.S. maps listed below. All the maps, the earliest online published in 1897, include the pub under the name "Robin Hood & Little John", which has now been shortened to The Robin Hood, and the pub, like many of those that have survived the pub death in recent years, has become a gastropub.
Gazetteers
Maps
- 25" O.S. map Kent XXXI.2 (c. 1875; surveyed 1865). No copy in NLS
- 25" O.S. map Kent XXXI.2 (1897; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Kent XXXI.2 (1897; rev. 1895)
- 25" O.S. map Kent XXXI.2 (1908; rev. 1907)
- 25" O.S. map Kent XXXI.2 (1934; rev. 1933)
- 25" O.S. map Kent XXXI.2 (1946; rev. 1939)
- 6" O.S. map Kent XXXI (1869; surveyed 1864-65)
- 6" O.S. map Kent XXXI.NW (1898; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Kent XXXI.NW (1898; rev. 1895)
- 6" O.S. map Kent XXXI.NW (1910; rev. 1907)
- 6" O.S. map Kent XXXI.NW (c. 1936; rev. 1933)
- 6" O.S. map Kent XXXI.NW (c. 1946; rev. 1938)
- 6" O.S. map Kent XXXI.NW (c. 1949; rev. 1939).
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Robin Hood, Burham / Marathon, 1 Aug. 2012, Creative Commons, via Geograph.
The Robin Hood / From the pub's website.
The Robin Hood, Blue Bell Hill / Chris Whippet, 15 Apr. 2014; Creative Commons, via Geograph
Robin Hood, Blue Bell Hill / Chris Whippet, 11 Jun. 2009; Creative Commons, via Geograph.
Sign of the Robin Hood / Andy Stephenson, 22 Mar. 2009; Creative Commons, via Geograph.
Track leading to The Robin Hood / Marathon, 1 Aug. 2012; Creative Commons, via Geograph.
Sign of the Robin Hood / David Anstiss, 14 Oct. 2012; Creative Commons, via Geograph.