Robin Hood (Norton)

Locality
Coordinate	53.058172, -2.163914
Adm. div.	Staffordshire
Vicinity	316 Ford Green Road, Norton, Stoke-on-Trent
Type	Public house
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	1845

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The Robin Hood, Norton.

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, 2021-01-06.

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'. The pub is included in all the early O.S. maps listed below. Template:PlaceNamesItemQuery

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

• Pub History Society: PHS Book Review: Stoke-on-Trent Pubs by Mervyn Edwards, Amberley, 96 pages, 2014.

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).

Background

• Facebook: The Robin Hood.

Also see

• Public houses named after Robin Hood.

Notes

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  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.

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  The Robin Hood seen from Ford Green Road / Google Earth Street View.

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  The Robin Hood seen from Spragg House Lane / Google Earth Street View.

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