Robin Hood (Brighouse)

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Approcimate location of the Robin Hood.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-18.

J. Horsfall Turner in 1893 mentioned a public house near Little John Mill and Robin Hood Mill "where 'If Robin Hood be not at home, | Come take a glass (gingerbeer) with Little John.'" These lines may well have referred to the pub at No. 16.

Sources

• Turner, J. Horsfall. The History of Brighouse, Rastrick, and Hipperholme; with Manorial Notes on Coley, Lightcliffe, Northowram, Shelf, Fixby, Clifton and Kirklees (Bingley, Yorkshire, 1893), p. 203.

Also see

• Brighouse place-name cluster.

Notes