Robin Hood Junction (Robin Hood, Wakefield)

Locality
Coordinate	53.7428, -1.5038
Adm. div.	West Riding of Yorkshire
Vicinity	Leeds Road, Wakefield
Type	Transport
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	1908

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Approximate site of Robin Hood Junction.

There is now a footpath where the railway tracks once were. The junction would have been in this area / Photo: the Great Glen via Panoramio.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-12-31. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

Robin Hood Junction in the village of Robin Hood, Wakefield, on the East and West Yorkshire Union Railway, is first recorded, as far as I know, on the 6" O.S. map of the area published in 1908. The railway was established in 1891 and extended a few years later. It closed in 1966. As seen in the photo below, the tracks have now been replaced by a nice footpath.

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.

Maps

• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire 233 (1854; rev. 1848-51)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE (1894; rev. 1892)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE 1908; rev. 1905)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE (1908; rev. 1905) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE (1931; rev. 1931-32) [sic]
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE (1947; rev. 1938)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.NE (1949; rev. 1948).

Background

• The London & North Eastern Railway Encyclopedia: Brief History of the EWYUR.

Also see

• Robin Hood (Wakefield) place-name cluster
• Wakefield place-name cluster.

Notes

 West Riding of Yorkshire place-names 

 Yorkshire place-names 

 Place-names