Robin Hood and Little John (Portsmouth)

Locality
Coordinate	50.791219, -1.108741
Adm. div.	Hampshire
Vicinity	Corner of West and Tower streets, Portsmouth
Type	Public house
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct
First Record	1784
A.k.a.	Robin Hood

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The most likely location of the Robin Hood and Little John.

The Robin Hood and Little John probably lay here / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-05-30. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-05-03.

The Robin Hood and Little John in West Street, Portsmouth, was in existence by 1784 and closed in 1894.

The land on which it stood was leased to John Boyart for a thousand years in 1691, but the Robin Hood pub itself is first recorded in Sadler's Directory (1784). In trade directories, censuses etc. the address is often given simply as West Street, but sometimes it is 1 or 2 West Street. In 1823 and 1828 it is given as Tower Street, a street that meets up with West Street at the southwest corner of the latter. So in all probability the pub was situated on the corners of these streets. Information from street and trade directories, censues etc. has been gathered by John Pomeroy and Pub History.

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

• King, Alan, compil. The Portsmouth Encyclopedia: a History of Places and People in Portsmouth, with an Index to Streets ([Portsmouth], 2011), p. 282 s.n. 'Robin Hood and Little John'
• Pomeroy of Portsmouth: Portsmouth Local History: Public Houses & Breweries: R; source references
• Pub Wiki: Robin Hood & Little John, West Street, Portsmouth, Hampshire.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.11 (1867; surveyed 1860)
• 25" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.11 (1898; rev. 1896)
• 25" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.11 (1898; rev. 1896) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.11 (1910; rev. 1906)
• 25" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.11 (1933; rev. 1931)
• 6" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII (c. 1871; surveyed 1856)
• 6" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.SE (1898; rev. 1896) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.SE (1898; rev. 1896)
• 6" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.SE (1911; rev. 1906–08)
• 6" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.SE (c. 1934; rev. 1931)
• 6" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.SE (c. 1942; rev. 1938)
• 6" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.SE (c. 1943; rev. 1938)
• 6" O.S. map Hampshire & Isle of Wight LXXXIII.SE (c. 1945; rev. 1938).

Background

• Lost Pubs In Portsmouth, Hampshire.

Also see

• Portsmouth place-name cluster
• Places named after Little John
• Public houses named after Robin Hood.

Notes

 Hampshire place-names 

 Place-names