Robin Hood (Tring)

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The Robin Hood.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|The "Robin Hood", Tring / Gerald Massey, 26 Oct. 2009, Creative Commons, via Geograph.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by 18.216.233.58, 2020-05-15.

The Robin Hood in Tring is housed in a lovely half-timbered building which, though much altered, dates back to the 17th century. It is not clear whether it was always a public house. The earliest evidence beer was sold there is an entry in the 1841 census to the effect that an elderly widow named Ann Tompkins was the publican. The first evidence that the pub was named after Robin Hood is the 1851 census where it figures as the Old Robin Hood, which probably means neither the pub, nor its name, was then of recent date. Before 1900 there was a Green Man pub a few tens of metres from the Robin Hood.

Betwen them the pub's unusually informative website and the UK Pub History site provide a good deal of information on publicans and residents during the years 1841 to 1937.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

• The Robin Hood, Tring
• UK Pub History.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Hertfordshire XXV.14 (c. 1879; surveyed 1877). No Copy in NLS
• 25" O.S. map Hertfordshire XXV.14 (1899; rev. 1897) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Hertfordshire XXV.14 (1899; rev. 1897)
• 25" O.S. map Hertfordshire XXV.14 (1924; rev. 1922)
• 6" O.S. map Buckinghamshire XXXIV (1883-84; surveyed 1877)
• 6" O.S. map Hertfordshire XXV (1884; surveyed 1877-79)
• 6" O.S. map Buckinghamshire XXXIV.NE (1900; rev. 1897-98) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Buckinghamshire XXXIV.NE (1900; rev. 1897-98)
• 6" O.S. map Hertfordshire XXV.SW (1900; rev. 1897)
• 6" O.S. map Hertfordshire XXV.SW (1926; rev. 1922-23)
• 6" O.S. map Hertfordshire XXV.SW (c. 1948; rev. 1938)
• 6" O.S. map Hertfordshire XXV.SW (1952; rev. 1950).

Background

• Facebook: The Robin Hood, Tring
• The Robin Hood, Tring: Gallery; exteriors and interiors of recent date.

Notes

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  The "Robin Hood", Tring / Gerald Massey, 26 Oct. 2009, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

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  The "Robin Hood", Tring / Gerald Massey, 12 Sep. 2009, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

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  The Robin Hood and snowy footpath / Rob Farrow, 8 Feb. 2007, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

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  Robin Hood Pub, Tring. At the corner of the Lower High Street and Brook Street / Gerald Massey, 12 Sep. 2009, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

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  The Robin Hood from the Memorial Gardens, Tring / Rob Farrow, 8 Feb. 2007, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

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  Pavement past the Robin Hood / Rob Farrow, 20 Jan. 2013, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

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  Robin Hood Pub, Tring. At the corner of the Lower High Street and Brook Street / Gerald Massey, 12 Sep. 2009, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

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  The Robin Hood c. 1900 / Pub website.

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  The Robin Hood c. 1905 / Pub website.

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  The Robin Hood c. 1905 / Pub website.

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  The Robin Hood c. 1960s / Pub website.

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  The Robin Hood c. 1999 / Pub website.

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  The Robin Hood c. 2005 / Pub website.