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== Maps == | == Maps == | ||
* | * [https://maps.nls.uk/view/115470528#zoom=6&lat=7952&lon=3276&layers=BT 25" O.S. map ''Staffordshire'' XII.6 (1881; rev. 1876–77)] | ||
* [https://maps.nls.uk/view/115470531#zoom=5&lat=8608&lon=3241&layers=BT 25" O.S. map ''Staffordshire'' XII.6 (1899; rev. 1898)] | |||
* [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=53.05820&lon=-2.16491&layers=168&b=5 25" O.S. map ''Staffordshire'' XII.6 (1899; rev. 1898)] (georeferenced) | |||
* 25" O.S. map ''Staffordshire'' XII.6 (''c.'' 1925; rev. ''c.'' 1922). No Copy in NLS | |||
* [https://maps.nls.uk/view/115470534#zoom=7&lat=8141&lon=3497&layers=BT 25" O.S. map ''Staffordshire'' XII.6 (1940; rev. 1937)] | |||
* [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=53.05817&lon=-2.16535&layers=6&b=5 6" O.S. map ''Staffordshire'' XII.NW (1900; rev. 1898)] (georeferenced) | |||
* [https://maps.nls.uk/view/101595875#zoom=7&lat=2965&lon=5451&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Staffordshire'' XII.NW (1889; surveyed 1878)] | |||
* [https://maps.nls.uk/view/101595872#zoom=7&lat=2811&lon=5116&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Staffordshire'' XII.NW (1900; rev. 1898)] | |||
* [https://maps.nls.uk/view/101595869#zoom=7&lat=2972&lon=5168&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Staffordshire'' XII.NW (1925; rev. 1922)] | |||
* [https://maps.nls.uk/view/101595866#zoom=7&lat=3097&lon=5343&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Staffordshire'' XII.NW (''c.'' 1947; rev. 1938)] | |||
* [https://maps.nls.uk/view/101595863#zoom=7&lat=3032&lon=5231&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Staffordshire'' XII.NW (1951; rev. 1937–45).] | |||
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Revision as of 19:52, 1 November 2020
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|The Robin Hood, Norton: Ford Green Road (the B5051) on the right, Spragg House Lane in front / David Weston, 29 June. 2014, Creative Commons, via Geograph.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-11-01. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-11-01.
The still thriving Robin Hood pub on the corner of Ford Green Road and Spragg House Lane in Norton, Stoke-on-Trent, was in existence by 1845.
In that year a newspaper reported that two colliers had misbehaved in the pub, being 'disguised in drink'.[1] 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
Maps
- 25" O.S. map Staffordshire XII.6 (1881; rev. 1876–77)
- 25" O.S. map Staffordshire XII.6 (1899; rev. 1898)
- 25" O.S. map Staffordshire XII.6 (1899; rev. 1898) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Staffordshire XII.6 (c. 1925; rev. c. 1922). No Copy in NLS
- 25" O.S. map Staffordshire XII.6 (1940; rev. 1937)
- 6" O.S. map Staffordshire XII.NW (1900; rev. 1898) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Staffordshire XII.NW (1889; surveyed 1878)
- 6" O.S. map Staffordshire XII.NW (1900; rev. 1898)
- 6" O.S. map Staffordshire XII.NW (1925; rev. 1922)
- 6" O.S. map Staffordshire XII.NW (c. 1947; rev. 1938)
- 6" O.S. map Staffordshire XII.NW (1951; rev. 1937–45).
Notes
The Robin Hood, Norton: Ford Green Road (the B5051) on the right, Spragg House Lane in front / David Weston, 29 June. 2014, Creative Commons, via Geograph.
The Robin Hood seen from Ford Green Road / Google Earth Street View.
The Robin Hood seen from Spragg House Lane / Google Earth Street View.
