Robin Hood (Burham)

Locality
Coordinate	51.337853, 0.488217
Adm. div.	Kent
Vicinity	364 Common Road, Blue Bell Hill, Chatham; Burham Common
Type	Public house
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	1897
A.k.a.	The Robin Hood Pub; Robin Hood and Little John

Loading map...

{"minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"mappingservice":"leaflet","width":"34%","height":"400px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":false,"defzoom":9,"layers":["OpenStreetMap","NLS","Stamen.Terrain"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":true,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","imageLayers":[],"locations":[{"text":"\u003Cdiv class=\"mw-parser-output\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERobin Hood (Burham)\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003C/div\u003E","title":"Robin Hood (Burham)\n","link":"","lat":51.337853,"lon":0.488217,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

The Robin Hood, Burham

Robin Hood, Burham / Marathon, 1 Aug. 2012, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-10-12. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.

The Robin Hood in Burham is located at the end of a short lane on the north side of Common Road. It has been in existence at least since 1897.

Dobson & Taylor list the pub as "[a]n inn on the edge of Buckmore Park, not far from the Rochester-Maidstone road". "Buckmore Park" is labelled "Buckmore Wood" on the O.S. maps listed below. All the maps, the earliest online published in 1897, include the pub under the name "Robin Hood & Little John", which has now been shortened to The Robin Hood, and the pub, like many of those that have survived the pub death in recent years, has become a gastropub.

Gazetteers

• Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 298.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Kent XXXI.2 (c. 1875; surveyed 1865). No Copy in NLS
• 25" O.S. map Kent XXXI.2 (1897; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XXXI.2 (1897; rev. 1895)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XXXI.2 (1908; rev. 1907)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XXXI.2 (1934; rev. 1933)
• 25" O.S. map Kent XXXI.2 (1946; rev. 1939)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XXXI (1869; surveyed 1864-65)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XXXI.NW (1898; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XXXI.NW (1898; rev. 1895)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XXXI.NW (1910; rev. 1907)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XXXI.NW (c. 1936; rev. 1933)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XXXI.NW (c. 1946; rev. 1938)
• 6" O.S. map Kent XXXI.NW (c. 1949; rev. 1939).

Background

• The pub's website.

Also see

• Walderslade place-name cluster
• Places named after Little John
• Public houses named after Robin Hood.

Notes

Image gallery

Click any image to display it in the lightbox, where you can navigate between images by clicking in the right or left side of the current image.

• 

  Robin Hood, Burham / Marathon, 1 Aug. 2012, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  The Robin Hood / From the pub's website.

• 

  The Robin Hood, Blue Bell Hill / Chris Whippet, 15 Apr. 2014; Creative Commons, via Geograph

• 

  Robin Hood, Blue Bell Hill / Chris Whippet, 11 Jun. 2009; Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  Sign of the Robin Hood / Andy Stephenson, 22 Mar. 2009; Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  Track leading to The Robin Hood / Marathon, 1 Aug. 2012; Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  Sign of the Robin Hood / David Anstiss, 14 Oct. 2012; Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  Bolton, C. Feeding Time at "The Robin Hood", Burham (C. Bolton's Photo Series) ([s.l.], [s.d.]). Photographic postcard (monochrome). 137 x 87 mm. / HTN collection.

 Kent place-names 

 Place-names