Robin Hood (Norton)
[[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.
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The Robin Hood, Norton-in-the-Moors: 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.