Robin Hood (Stockport)

Locality
Coordinate	53.406998, -2.154661
Adm. div.	Cheshire
Vicinity	35 Middle Hillgate, Stockport
Type	Public house
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct
First Record	1850

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35 Middle Hillgate, Stockport.

35 Middle Hillgate in Stockport is now a barber's / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-04-19. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-05-08.

A public house named the Robin Hood is recorded at 35 Middle Hillgate in Stockport in 1850–53.

The pub is listed in the History, Gazetteer & Directory of Cheshire for 1850, with Samuel Hallworth & Co., spirit merchant and victualler, as proprietors and 35 Middle Hillgate as the street address. Whellan & Co.'s Directory for Manchester (1853) has Samuel Hallworth at 37 – not 35 – Middle Hillgate. Streets have often been renumbered, but in this case the present 35 Middle Hillgate may well be the building in which the pub was located. Samuel Hallworth is listed in the 1851 Census as 'Wine Merchant' at 35 Middle Hillgate. Just before visiting that address the census taker had called at 'Cheapside' which, as the earliest of the 6" maps listed below shows, was then the name of the western stretch of Waterloo Road, which now intersects Middle Hillgate to become Edward Street west of it. The present No. 35 is on the northeastern corner of this intersection, where some of the early maps listed below list a 'P.H.', i.e. public house.

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

• The Genealogist: 1851 Census, Cheshire, 02157a, Image 00109.
• The Genealogist: 1853 Manchester Whellan Directory, p. 808
• University of Leicester Special Collections Online: Historical Directories of England & Wales: History, Gazetteer & Directory of Cheshire, 1850, pp. 287, 304.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Cheshire X.15 (1874; surveyed 1872)
• 25" O.S. map Cheshire XIX.3 (c. 1877; surveyed c. 1876). No copy in NLS
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire CXII.13 (1895; surveyed 1892–93)
• 25" O.S. map Cheshire X.15 (1898; rev. 1897) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Cheshire XIX.3 (c. 1898; rev. c. 1897). No copy in NLS
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire CXII.13 (c. 1908; rev. c. 1904). No copy in NLS
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire CXII.13 (c. 1922; rev. 1917)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire CXII.13 (1936; rev. 1934)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire CXII (1848; surveyed 1845)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire X (1882; surveyed 1872)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire X.SE (1899; rev. 1897)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire CXII.SW (1910; rev. 1904) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire X.SE (1911; rev. 1907)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire CXII (1923; rev. 1916–17)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire CXII.SW (1923; rev. 1917)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire CXII.SW (1939; rev. 1934)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire X.SE (c. 1946; rev. 1938)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire CXII.SW (1946; rev. 1938).

Also see

• Public houses named after Robin Hood.

Notes

 Cheshire place-names 

 Place-names