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Hockley (now NE Nottingham), where The Robin Hood was located. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-10-14. Revised by … The Robin Hood in Hockley is included on a list of alehouse keepers' … cited below). In similar entries from 1759 and 1762 it is referred to as The Green Man. A couple of oTher Pubs on These lists also appear under two different names. In The case of The Robin Hood/Green Man, The vacillation is almost certainly due to its signboard allowing both interpretations and The name being set down in The record by someone oTher than The pub owner. I do not find it very likely that The proprietor should deliberately have changed The pub's name from The Green Man to Robin Hood between 1759 and 1761, only to change it back again already in 1762. On The oTher hand, Robin Hood and The Green Man may very well have looked similar enough on inn signs to lead to confusion. OTher Green Men are known to have morphed into Robin Hoods. Stevenson, William …

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-10. Revised by … public houses in England are named after Robin Hood or subsidiary characters of The tradition: Restaurants Restaurants, cafeterias and food shops in England are named after Robin Hood or subsidiary characters in The tradition, excluding Pubs, pub restaurants and inns. These are not included in The charts: Also see ⁃ Public houses named The Green Man

Pubs named The Green Man (Beds. to Dorset; Essex to Yorks. to follow). By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2015-07-17. Revised by … 'The Green Man' is a quite common pub or inn name in England, while The name of 'The Green Man and Still' is now much less common than it used to be. Public houses with These names usually have (or had) a sign showing a Green-clad figure – now often hard to distinguish from a typical depiction of Robin Hood – or a "Green Man" Wikipedia: Green Man. head. These pub names and signs were not originally connected with The Robin Hood figure, though in some cases They have later come to be. Since Their connection with The outlaw is only tangential, They are not given separate entries on this site. However, I include below a … for such pub names found during my search for Robin Hood-related place-names, The sources being The 6" O.S. map online at NLS, Pub History, and London Pubology and Many oThers. …