Robin Hood (Tottington)

Locality
Coordinate	53.614654, -2.340878
Adm. div.	Lancashire
Vicinity	19 Market Street, Tottington, Bury
Type	Public house
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	1838

The Robin Hood, Market Street, Tottington / David Dixon, 8 Apr. 2010; Creative Commons, via Geograph.

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The Robin Hood.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-04-22.

The Robin Hood at 19 Market Street, Tottington, Bury, was in business by 1838.

It is included in the tithe award for the 'township of Tottington Lower End in the parish of Bury' (1838), with William Hampson as landowner and George Scarnell as occupier. Three plots are listed under the heading of 'Robin Hood':

• plot No. 889: 'Robin Hood Public House[,] Barn[,] Cow house[,] stable Y^d', occupying a combined area of 26 perches (657.61 m²)
• plot No. 990: 'Bowling green', with an area of 1 rood and 12 perches (303.51 m²)
• plot No. 991: 'Way bank', with an area of 1 acre, 2 roods and 22 perches (6626.73 m²)

yielding a total area of 2 acres, 1 rood and 20 perches (9611.28 m²). No state of cultivation is listed for the two first, but the last is listed as 'meadow'.

The Robin Hood is named on the early 25" O.S. maps of the area but is indicated, if at all, only by 'P.H.' on the 6" maps (see links below). By 1930 there was a Robin Hood Brewery adjacent to the pub. See further Tottington place-name cluster. A parking lot now occupies the area formerly taken up by the pub's bowling green.

MS sources

• 1838 tithe award for the 'township of Tottington Lower End in the parish of Bury', online at the Genealogist, Piece 18, sub-piece 308, Image 087, #889-91 (£)
• accompanying map, online at the Genealogist, Piece 18, sub-piece 308, Sub-Image 001, #889-91 (£).

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-11.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXXVII.4 (1893; surveyed 1891)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXXIX.1 (1910; rev. 1908) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXXVII.4 (1910; rev. 1908)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXXVII.4 (1930; rev. 1927–28)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXXVII.NE (1911; rev. 1907–08) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXXVII (1850; surveyed 1844–47)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXXVII.NE (1894; surveyed 1889–91)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXXVII.NE (1911; rev. 1907–08)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXXVII.NE (1931; rev. 1927–28)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXXVII.NE (1947; rev. 1938).

Background

• Facebook: The Robin Hood – Tottington.

Also see

• Tottington place-name cluster
• Public houses named after Robin Hood.

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  The Robin Hood, Market Street, Tottington / David Dixon, 8 Apr. 2010; Creative Commons, via Geograph.

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  The Robin Hood public house, Tottington / J. Thomas, 17 Sep. 2018; Creative Commons, via Geograph.

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  Sign of the Robin Hood public house, Tottington / J. Thomas, 17 Sep. 2018; Creative Commons, via Geograph.

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