Robin Hood (Ancoats, Manchester)

Locality
Coordinate	53.484394, -2.22932
Adm. div.	Lancashire
Vicinity	Blossom Street, Ancoats, Manchester
Type	Public house
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct
First Record	1851?

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Blossom Street where the Robin Hood was situated.

Blossom Street where the Robin Hood was situated. / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-03-06. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-02-13.

For a few years during the 1850s there was a Robin Hood pub somewhere on Blossom Street, Ancoats, Manchester. It disappeared when warehouses were built in the area.

This short-lived pub is not included on any of the O.S. maps listed below. A Thomas Edwards, "Beer Retailer", is listed at 40 Blossom Street in the 1851 census, and in that of 1861 an Alice Edwards, "Beerhousekeeper" at 42 Blossom Street, but no pub name is cited.

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

• 25" O.S. map Lancashire CIV.7 (1893; surveyed 1888-91)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire CIV.7 (c. 1908; rev. c. 1904). No copy in NLS
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire CIV.7 (1922; rev. 1915) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire CIV.7 (1922; rev. 1915)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire CIV.7 (1934; rev. 1931-32)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire CIV (1848; surveyed 1845)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire CIV.NE (1891; surveyed 1888-91)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire CIV.NE (1909; rev. 1905-1906) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire CIV.NE (1909; rev. 1905-1906)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire CIV (1923; rev. 1915-21)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire CIV.NE (1923; rev. 1915-21)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire CIV.NE (1936; rev. 1931-32)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire CIV.NE (c. 1947; rev. 1938).

Discussion

• Pubs of Manchester, Past & Present: Robin Hood, Blossom Street.

Background

• The Genealogist: 1851 Census: Lancashire, Piece 225_2, Image 00181 (£)
• The Genealogist: 1861 Census: Lancashire, Piece 02928, Image 00184 (£).

Also see

• Manchester place-name cluster
• Public houses named after Robin Hood.

Notes

 Lancashire place-names 

 Place-names