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The Robin Hood, home to the Robin Hood Variety theatre, was situated on the west side of Pedmore Road (A4036; Merry Hill). By … Robin Hood pub in Brierley Hill was home to the Robin Hood Variety theatre during the tenure of a Ray Hingley sometime after the 1960s. Flickr: Robin Hood (demolished). Gazetteers ⁃ Not included in Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a, pp. 293-311. Sources ⁃ Flickr: Robin Hood (demolished). Maps ⁃ 25" O.S. map Staffordshire LXXI.7 (1884; surveyed 1881–82) ⁃ 25" O.S. map Worcestershire IV.7 (1903; rev. 1901) (georeferenced) ⁃ 25" O.S. map Worcestershire IV.7 (1903; rev. 1901) ⁃ 25" O.S. map Staffordshire LXXI.7 (1920; rev. 1914) ⁃ 25" O.S. map Staffordshire LXXI.7 (1947; rev. 1939) ⁃ 6" O.S. map Worcestershire IV.NE (1887; surveyed 1881–82) ⁃ 6" O.S. map Staffordshire LXXI.NE (1904; rev. 1901) …

Approximate indication of the site of the Robin Hood. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-05-04. Revised by … A pub named the Robin Hood at 12 French Street in Southampton existed from 1775 or earlier to 1855 or later. There is now no 12 French Street. At present, this street extends north from Town Quay to about the Medieval Merchant's House on the corner of French Street and Vyse Lane. On a 6" O.S. map of Southampton published in 1871, the stretch of the present Castle Way extending from there to St Michael's Church appears also to be part of French Street, while the stretch of the present Castle Way extending north from the church to the present West Street was evidently considered part of the latter. The 1898 revision of the map has French Street from Town Quay to somewhere near the church so labelled, while the present Castle Way north of there and the present West Street are not named. After WWII, French Street was renumbered and part of it renamed 'Castle Way'. Closing Pubs …

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-01-07. Revised by … Huntingdon, formerly the county town of Huntingdonshire, now relegated to the status of a market town in Cambridgeshire, does not in itself have any clear connection with the outlaw, but from c. 1598 on Robin Hood has been frequently portrayed as earl of Huntingdon. He was endowed with this title by minor Elizabethan dramatists. More recently the idea has been especially popular with film makers. A tragedy with a lowborn criminal as its hero would not have sat well with Elizabethan theatre audiences, at least not with those segments who could afford the more expensive admission fees, so when it was decided that a proper Robin Hood tragedy must be written and staged, it was probably inevitable that the yeoman hero must have some title foisted on him. This was not entirely without precedent, for Richard Grafton in 1568 claimed to have read "in an olde an auncient Pamphlet" that Robin Hood "discended of a noble parentage: or …