Robin Hood Inn (Barnsdale)

Locality
Coordinates	53.6064, -1.2229
Adm. div.	West Riding of Yorkshire
Vicinity	Skellow, in Barnsdale
Type	Public house
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct
First Record	1854

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Approximate location of the Robin Hood Inn, across the road from Robin
Hood's Well.

Robin Hood Inn opposite Robin Hood's Well (from 6" O.S, Map Sheet 264 (1854), at NLS).

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-10-15. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-06.

Round Robin Hood's Well in Barnsdale a now vanished hamlet of the same name formed during the 17th and 18th centuries, when the well was one of the must-see sites for tourists and travellers along the Great North Road. That this development was due to the brisk trade the travellers brought is suggested by the fact that this tiny hamlet of ten or fewer houses straddling the Great North Road boasted not one but two inns. It will hardly surprise anybody that one of them was called the Robin Hood Inn. It is indicated by this name on 6" O.S. map Sheet 264, published in 1854 but based on a survey of the area carried out in 1849 (see Maps section below).

According to a recent writer, the inn possessed a special attraction in the form of a leather bottle that was said to have belonged to Robin Hood, but he cites no source, and I suspect he has confused the inn at Robin Hood's Well in Barnsdale with that at the well of the same name in Nottingham, where a small collection of alleged Robin Hood relics included a three-pint leather bottle.

Allusions

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.

Background

• Hunter, Joseph. South Yorkshire. The History and Topography of the Deanery of Doncaster in the Diocese and County of York (London, 1828-31), vol. II, pp. 487-99.

Maps

• 6" O.S, Map Sheet 264 (1854) (at NLS).

Notes

Also see

• Barnsdale place-name cluster
• Barnsdale (Doncaster)
• Places named Robin Hood's Well
• Robin Hood's Well (Barnsdale)
• Robin Hood's Bottle (Robin Hood's Well, Nottingham).

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