Robin Hood Colliery (Robin Hood, Wakefield) (2)

Locality
Coordinate	53.7406, -1.5093
Adm. div.	West Riding of Yorkshire
Vicinity	Leeds Road, Wakefield
Type	Establishment
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct
First Record	1854

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Robin Hood Primary School.

Looking south from Thorpe Lower Lane in Robin Hood, Wakefield. I believe part of Robin Hood Colliery's surface facilities were once located here.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-12-31. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

The Robin Hood Colliery or Collieries had operations in several places in the village of Robin Hood. The facilities at the location indicated on the Google Map are found indicated on all the 6" O.S. maps listed below (see Maps section).

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.

Maps

• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire 233 (1854; rev. 1848-51)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE (1894; rev. 1892)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE 1908; rev. 1905)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE (1908; rev. 1905) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE (1931; rev. 1931-32) [sic]
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE (1947; rev. 1938)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE (1949; rev. 1948).

Also see

• Robin Hood (Wakefield) place-name cluster
• Wakefield place-name cluster
• Places named Robin Hood's Mine.

 West Riding of Yorkshire place-names 

 Yorkshire place-names 

 Place-names