Robin Hood Farm (Leigh)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
| Locality | |
|---|---|
| Coordinate | 53.480694, -2.537884 |
| Adm. div. | Lancashire |
| Vicinity | 263 St Helens Road, Aspull Common, Leigh |
| Type | Public house |
| Interest | Robin Hood name |
| Status | Defunct |
| First Record | 1846 |
| A.k.a. | Robin Hood Farm |
Site of the Robin Hood/Robin Hood Farm.
By {{subst:#realname:Henryfunk}}, {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}-{{subst:CURRENTMONTH}}-{{subst:CURRENTDAY2}}. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-20.
The Robin Hood public house on St Helens Road in Aspull Common, Leigh, Lancashire, was in existence by 1846. It was situated on or near the plot currently occupied by Smiths Service Centre and Mike Ince Car Sales. After it went out of business as a pub, it became known as Robin Hood Farm.
The pub is first recorded in the tithe award for Pennington (1846), where it is listed as 'Robin Hood Public House [with] outbuildings and yard', with Daniel Gaskell, Esq., as landowner, Ellen Eckersley as occupier, '[p]asture' as state of cultivation, and an area of 2 acres and 24 perches (8700.74 m2).[1]
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.
MS sources
- 1846 tithe award for Pennington ('Penington), Leigh, online at the Genealogist, piece 18, sub-piece 242, image 010 (subscription required)
- accompanying map, online at the Genealogist, piece 18, sub-piece 242, sub-image 001 (subscription required).
Maps
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire CII.10 (c. 1893; surveyed c. 1891). No Copy in NLS
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire CII.10 (1907; rev. 1905)
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire XLIII.12 (1912; rev. 1910) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire CII.10 (1928; rev. 1925)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire CII (1849; surveyed 1845–47)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire CII.SW (1894; surveyed 1891–92)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire CII.SW (1908; rev. 1905–06) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire CII.SW (1929; rev. 1925)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire CII.SW (1947; rev. 1938)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire CII.SW (1951; rev. 1947).
Background
Also see
- ↑ 1846 tithe award for Pennington ('Penington), Leigh, online at the Genealogist, piece 18, sub-piece 242, image 010 (subscription required); accompanying map, online at the Genealogist, piece 18, sub-piece 242, sub-image 001 (subscription required).