Robin Hood (Landport)

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The Robin Hood was situated in the area west of Church Street Roundabout.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|The Robin Hood would have been in this area or perhaps slightly south of it / Google Earth Street View.]]

By {{subst:#realname:Henryfunk}}, {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}-{{subst:CURRENTMONTH}}-{{subst:CURRENTDAY2}}. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-05-29.

The Robin Hood on Commercial Road in Landport, Portsmouth, existed by 1881 and as late as 1927 if not later.

Information on publicans etc. for this period can be found at the Pub Wiki. The 1881 census has the pub at 361 Commercial Road, but subsequent references put it at No. 371 of that road. The most likely explanation for the change would seem to be that the street was renumbered. There seems to have been a good deal of building activity, and certainly several changes to the roadnet, in this area between Commercial Road and the harbour during the period in question.

IRHB is fairly confident that the pub was located on the west side of the stretch of the then Commercial Road which is now named Mile End Road. It would have been on or immediately east or south of the parking lot at Morrisons, and so just west or southwest of the Church Street Roundabout. 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

• 1881 Census of Hampshire, Piece 01140. image 00048, at the Genealogist (subscription required)
• Pub Wiki: Robin Hood, 371 Commercial Road, Landport, Hampshire.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Hampshire and Isle of Wight LXXXIII.8 (c. 1860; surveyed 1859). No Copy in NLS
• 25" O.S. map Hampshire and Isle of Wight LXXXIII.8 (1898; rev. 1896) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Hampshire and Isle of Wight LXXXIII.8 (1898; rev. 1896)
• 25" O.S. map Hampshire and Isle of Wight LXXXIII.8 (1910; rev. 1906)
• 25" O.S. map Hampshire and Isle of Wight LXXXIII.8 (1933; rev. 1931)
• 25" O.S. map Hampshire and Isle of Wight LXXXIII.8 (1946; rev. 1939)
• 6" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.NE (1898; rev. 1896) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII (c. 1871; surveyed 1856)
• 6" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.NE (1898; rev. 1896)
• 6" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.NE (1911; rev. 1905–07)
• 6" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.NE (c. 1934; rev. 1931)
• 6" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.NE (c. 1942; rev. 1933)
• 6" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.NE (c. 1943; rev. 1938)
• 6" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.NE (c. 1945; rev. 1938).

Background

• 1881 Census of Hampshire, Piece 01140. image 00084, at the Genealogist (subscription required).

Notes

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