Robin Hood and Little John (Prince Rock)

Locality
Coordinate	50.3677, -4.1108
Adm. div.	Devon
Vicinity	At present grounds of metal scrap yard, E end of Faraday Road; Prince Rock
Type	Public house
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct
First Record	1869

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The site of the Robin Hood and Little John, near Laira Bridge.

The site of the Robin Hood and Little John, now a scrap metal yard / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-05-24. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.

Plymouth local historian Chris Robinson notes that around the mid-19th century there was a pub called the Robin Hood and Little John '[j]ust below Laira Bridge, at Prince Rock'.

The pub is included on the 6" map of the area published in 1869, based on surveying done in 1856: 'Robin Hood & Little John B.H.' (B.H. = beer house). This is the earliest source known to IRHB. The pub seems to have been one of the two northernmost of a row of six semi-detached houses near 'Princerock' at what is now the grounds of a metal scrap yard (see photo below). The houses are named 'Prince Rock Row' on a 25" O.S. map published c. 1854-63 (see Maps below).

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.

Sources

• Chris Robinson's Plymouth: Robin Hood (page no longer existing; website still online.)

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Devon CXXIV.9 (c. 1854–63; surveyed c. 1854)
• 25" O.S. map Devon CXXIV.5 (1894; rev. 1892) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Devon CXXIV.9 (1894; rev. 1892–93)
• 25" O.S. map Devon CXXIV.9 (1914; rev. 1912)
• 25" O.S. map Devon CXXIV.9 (1933; rev. 1933)
• 6" O.S. map Devonshire CXXIV (1869; surveyed 1856)
• 6" O.S. map Devonshire CXXIV.SW (1896; surveyed 1892–93)
• 6" O.S. map Devonshire CXXIV.SW (1907; rev. 1905) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Devonshire CXXIV.SW (1907; rev. 1905)
• 6" O.S. map Devonshire CXXIV.SW (1915; rev. 1912)
• 6" O.S. map Devonshire CXXIV.SW (c. 1936; rev. 1933)
• 6" O.S. map Devonshire CXXIV.SW (c. 1946; rev. 1938).

Also see

• Plymouth place-name cluster
• Places named after Little John
• Public houses named after Robin Hood.

Notes

 Devon place-names

 Place-names