Robin Hood Inn (Rainow)

Locality
Coordinate	53.282811, -2.073057
Adm. div.	Cheshire
Vicinity	Church Lane, Rainow, Macclesfield
Type	Public house
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	1850
A.k.a.	Robin Hood

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Robin Hood Inn.

Robin Hood Inn, Rainow / Garstonian, 31 May 2014, via Flickr.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-06-18.

The Robin Hood Inn in Rainow, Macclesfield, was in existence by 1850.

It is listed as 'Robin Hood' in an 1850 directory with the wheelwright John Yarwood as victualler. The pub is included on the 6" O.S. map of the area published in 1881 (see Maps section below).

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

• University of Leicester: Special Collections Online: History, Gazetteer & Directory of Cheshire, 1850 - Page 256.

Maps

• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXVII (1881; rev. 1870-72)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXVII.NW (1899; rev. 1896-97) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXVII.NW (1911; rev. 1907)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXVII.NW (c. 1933; rev. 1907)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXVII.NW (c. 1937; rev. 1907)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXVII.NW (c. 1947; rev. 1938).

Background

• 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) does not mention the Robin Hood Inn in Rainow
• Facebook: Friends of the Robin Hood at Rainow
• Facebook: The Robin Hood, Rainow
• Happy Valley, Bollington: Robin Hood Inn.

Also see

• Public houses named after Robin Hood.

Notes

 Cheshire place-names 

 Place-names