Robin Hood (Marchington Cliff)
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|The site of the Robin Hood / Google EarthStreet View.]]
By {{subst:#realname:Henryfunk}}, {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}-{{subst:CURRENTMONTH}}-{{subst:CURRENTDAY2}}. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-10-13.
A public house named the Robin Hood was situated immediately north-east of the intersection of Thorney Lanes, Marchinton Cliff, and Forest Road in Marchington Woodlands.
As per October 2020, a Google search shows that real estate information websites still refer to this property as 'Robin Hood', so the name of the pub to some extent lives on. As the house now at the site is clearly of fairly recent date, it is possible that its immediate predecessor was the Robin Hood. The earliest sources for this pub name known to IRHB are a 25" O.S. map of the area published 1901, based on a survey carried out in 1900, and an allusion in a book on fox hunting published the same year as the map. 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.
Maps
- 25" O.S. map Staffordshire XXXII.16 (1883; surveyed 1882)
- 25" O.S. map Staffordshire XXXII.16 (1901; rev. 1900) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Staffordshire XXXII.16 (1901; rev. 1900)
- 25" O.S. map Staffordshire XXXII.16 (1923; rev. 1920)
- 6" O.S. map Staffordshire XXXII.SE (1886; surveyed 1881–82)
- 6" O.S. map Staffordshire XXXII.SE (1901; rev. 1900) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Staffordshire XXXII.SE (1901; rev. 1900)
- 6" O.S. map Derbyshire LII (1924; rev. 1920).
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