Robin Hood (Grassington)

Locality
Coordinate	54.073481, -1.99688
Adm. div.	West Riding of Yorkshire
Vicinity	On or near corner of Garrs End Lane and Main Street in Grassington
Type	Public house
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct
First Record	1846
A.k.a.	Robin Hood Inn

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Robin Hood, Grassington

The former Robin Hood Inn? / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-04-08. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-04-22.

The Robin Hood Inn in Grassington, in the parish of Linton, West Riding of Yorkshire, is known from a tithe award dating from 1846, where "Robin Hood Inn & Cottages" together with the blacksmith's shop are listed as occupying an area of 11 perches (278.22 m²). The occupier is listed as John Parkinson, the owners as 'Grassington overseers'.

The inn is not included in the early O.S. maps listed below, but judging from the 1846 tithe map, its premises were most likely the building on the corner of Garrs End Lane and Main Street – which is now the home of a ladies' fashion boutique named Seasons – or the one next to it in the lane. However, the early 25" O.S. maps, which do not include the inn, have a white area immediately south of those houses. This may have represented the pub's garden or perhaps a then empty lot where the inn had stood. Grassington now belongs administratively to North Yorkshire.

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.

MS sources

• 1846 tithe award for Grassington, online at the Genealogist.com, Piece 43, sub-piece 180, Image 035, #645 (£)
• Accompanying map, online at the Genealogist.com, Piece 43, sub-piece 180, Sub-Image 001 (£).

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CXXXIV.5 (1891; surveyed 1890)
• 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CXXXIV.5 (1909; rev. 1907)
• 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CXXXIV.5 (1909; rev. 1907) (georeferenced)]
• 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CXXXIV.5 (1909; rev. 1907) (georeferenced)]
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire 134 (1853; surveyed 1848-50)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CXXXIV (1894; surveyed 1889-90)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CXXXIV.NW (1910; rev. 1907).

Also see

• Public houses named after Robin Hood.

Notes

 West Riding of Yorkshire place-names 

 Yorkshire place-names 

 Place-names