Robin Hood Field (Helsby)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Helsby, in or near which Robin Hood Field was located.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-21. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-06-03.
Robin Hood Field in Helsby is first recorded in 1844. It was named after the Robin Hood pub until recently located on its south-western corner, the intersection of Chester Road and Lower Robin Hood Lane.
The field is listed in the 1844 tithe award for Helsby with a Henry Haspell as owner, John Lewis, Jr., as occupier, state of cultivation as 'Pasture', and an area of 6 acres, 31 roods and 9 perches (Template:AcreRoodPerchToM2 m2).[1] Like several other fields in the imemdiate vicinity is was named after the pub. Template:PnItemQry
Gazetteers
- Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 295, s.n. 'Robin Hood Field'.
MS sources
- 1844 Tithe award for Helsby, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, piece 05, sub-piece 199, image 013, item 144 (subscription required)
- Accompanying map, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, piece 05, sub-piece 199, sub-image 001, item 137 (subscription required).
Printed sources
- Dodgson, John McN.; Rumble, Alexander R. The Place-Names of Cheshire, pts. I-V (English Place-Name Society, vols. XLIV-XLVIII, LIV, LXXIV) (Cambridge, 1970-72; [s.l.], 1981; Nottingham, 1997), vol. III, p. 238.
- Field, John; compil. English Field Names: a Dictionary (Newton Abbot, ©1972), p. 183, s.n. 'Robin Hood Bank'.
Maps
- 25" O.S. map Cheshire XXXII.6 (c. 1874; surveyed c. 1872). No Copy in NLS
- 25" O.S. map Cheshire XXXII.6 (1898; rev. 1897) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Cheshire XXXII.6 (1898; rev. 1897)
- 25" O.S. map Cheshire XXXII.6 (1935; rev. 1908)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXII (1881; surveyed 1873-74)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXII.NW (1899; rev. 1897) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXII.NW (1899; rev. 1897)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXII.NW (1911; rev. 1908)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXII.NW (c. 1936; rev. 1908)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXII.NW (c. 1944; rev. 1938).
Notes
- ↑ Online at the Genealogist.co.uk, piece 05, sub-piece 199, image 013, item 144 (subscription required); Dodgson, John McN.; Rumble, Alexander R. The Place-Names of Cheshire, pts. I-V (English Place-Name Society, vols. XLIV-XLVIII, LIV, LXXIV) (Cambridge, 1970-72; [s.l.], 1981; Nottingham, 1997), vol. III, p. 238, dates it 1845 and refers to it as 'TA 199'.