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The Robin Hood was located somewhere on Bedford High Street.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Bedford High Street, where the Robin Hood was located / Google Maps Street View.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-20. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-17.

The Robin Hood on Bedford High Street was most likely the public house concerned in a list of ale-house cognizances from 1751. According to the calendar entry of this record, the list includes public houses in Bedford and elsewhere (in Bedfordshire). It is thus not certain that the reference is to the pub on Bedford High Street, but until evidence of another pub of the same name not too far from Bedford is found, this seems most likely. Almost exactly one hundred years later, Slater's directory listed what is probably the same pub, on Bedford High Street, the proprietor being a Charles Gaseley.^[1] I am not aware when the pub closed, but this can hardly have been very recently, for there does not seem to be any references to this public house on the web. The pub is not named on any of the maps listed below, but public houses in urban areas very often are not. Even the 25" maps simply use the labels 'Inn' or 'P.H.' without a name.Template:PnItemQry

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

Slater, Isaac, compil. Slater's (Late Pigot & Co.) Royal National and Commercial Directory and Topography of the Counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, and Suffolk (Manchester and London, 1850), p. 12 of the Bedfordshire section.

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Background

Wikipedia: Bedford.

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Notes

↑ Slater, Isaac, compil. Slater's (Late Pigot & Co.) Royal National and Commercial Directory and Topography of the Counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, and Suffolk (Manchester and London, 1850), p. 12 of the Bedfordshire section.

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[1] Slater, Isaac, compil. Slater's (Late Pigot & Co.) Royal National and Commercial Directory and Topography of the Counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, and Suffolk (Manchester and London, 1850), p. 12 of the Bedfordshire section.

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+The Robin Hood on Bedford High Street was most likely the public house concerned in a list of ale-house cognizances  from 1751. According to the calendar entry of this record, the list includes public houses in Bedford and elsewhere (in Bedfordshire). It is thus not certain that the reference is to the pub on Bedford High Street, but until evidence of another pub of the same name not too far from Bedford is found, this seems most likely. Almost exactly one hundred years later, Slater's directory listed what is probably the same pub, on Bedford High Street, the proprietor being a Charles Gaseley.<ref>{{:Slater, Isaac 1850a}}, p. 12 of the Bedfordshire section.</ref> I am not aware when the pub closed, but this can hardly have been very recently, for there does not seem to be any references to this public house on the web. The pub is not named on any of the maps listed below, but public houses in urban areas very often are not. Even the 25" maps simply use the labels 'Inn' or 'P.H.' without a name.{{PnItemQry}}
 == Gazetteers ==
 * Not included in {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, pp. 293-311.