Robin Hood House (Lostock Gralam)

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Robin Hood House, 66 Birches Lane, Lostock Green.

Robin Hood House, 66 Birches Lane, Lostock Green / Google Maps Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-17. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-06-21.

Robin Hood House, 66 Birches Lane, Lostock Green is a recently built house which seems to have been first put on the market in 2006. I assume the name is little older than that. It may have been inspired by the Robinhood Farm once located nearby.

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
• Not included in 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).

Sources

• Zoopla: Property history of Robin Hood House, Birches Lane, Lostock Green, Northwich CW9 7SN, N/A.

Maps

Maps centered on the location; the place-name is not included on the maps.

• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXIV (1882; surveyed 1874-77)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXIV.SE (1899; rev. 1897)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXIV.SE (1899; rev. 1897) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXIV.SE (1911; rev. 1908).

Background

• Wikipedia: Lostock Gralam.

Notes