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{{#display_map:{{#var:Coords}}~{{#replace:{{PAGENAME}}|&#39;|'}}|width=34%|enablefullscreen=yes}}<div class="pnMapLegend">The site of Robinhood Farm.</div><div class="no-img">
{{#display_map:{{#var:Coords}}~{{#replace:{{PAGENAME}}|&#39;|'}}|width=34%|enablefullscreen=yes}}<div class="pnMapLegend">The site of Robinhood Farm.</div>
[[File:robinhood-farm-lostock-gralam-google-earth-street-view.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Looking down Birches Lane. Did the building, centre mid-distance, belong to Robinhood Farm? / Google Earth Street View.]]
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<p id="byline">By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-17. Revised by {{#realname:{{REVISIONUSER}}}}, {{REVISIONYEAR}}-{{REVISIONMONTH}}-{{REVISIONDAY2}}.</p>
Robinhood Farm was located in Lostock Green, a hamlet in Lostock Gralam, situated about 1 km south of the main town of the parish. The earliest mention of the farm currently known dates from 1923.
Robinhood Farm was located on Birches Lane in Lostock Green, a hamlet in Lostock Gralam, situated about 1 km south of the main town of the parish. The name is found on a 6" O.S. map of the area published in 1882, based on a survey carried out 1874-77. This is the earliest occurrence found so far.


The English Place-Name Society's volume on this part of Cheshire lists Robinhood Farm without source reference or date,<ref>{{:Dodgson, John McNeal 1970a}}, vol. II, p. 191.</ref> which suggests that the editor of the volume thought it likely to be of modern date. The earliest reference IRHB has found so far concerns a woman born at Robinhood Farm in 1923.<ref>[http://www.dodgsonfunerals.com/viewreport.php?recid=1312&t=1&criteria=&filter=F&status=1 Dodgson's Funeral Service in Knutsford & George Bell Funeral Service in Northwich.] Also see [http://www.lachdennis.com/parish-council/village-links/item/download/49_34664d16e11995acbb66f4aaa1a80827 Village Links &ndash; Local News for Lostock Green and Lach Dennis], February 2016, p. [21] for the reminiscences of a gentleman who used to play there as a child in the early 1930s.</ref> The farm was located on the west side of a lane off Birches Lane, immediately east of the A556 (which did not exist then).
The English Place-Name Society's volume on this part of Cheshire lists Robinhood Farm without source reference or date,<ref>{{:Dodgson, John McNeal 1970a}}, vol. II, p. 191.</ref> which suggests that the editor of the volume thought it likely to be of modern date. Robinhood Farm is included on all the O.S. maps listed below.
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== Sources ==
== Sources ==
* {{:Dodgson, John McNeal 1970a}}, vol. II, pp. 190, 191.
* {{:Dodgson, John McNeal 1970a}}, vol. II, pp. 190, 191.
* [http://www.dodgsonfunerals.com/viewreport.php?recid=1312&t=1&criteria=&filter=F&status=1 Dodgson's Funeral Service in Knutsford & George Bell Funeral Service in Northwich.]


== Maps ==
== Maps ==
* [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=53.26108&lon=-2.46069&layers=168&b=5 25" O.S. map ''Cheshire'' XXXIV.7 (1898; rev. 1897)] (georeferenced)
* [https://maps.nls.uk/view/114583249#zoom=5&lat=1352&lon=5843&layers=BT 25" O.S. map ''Cheshire'' XXXIV.7 (1898; rev. 1897)]
* 25" O.S. map ''Cheshire'' XXXIV.7 (''c.'' 1877; surveyed ''c.'' 1872). No copy in NLS
* [https://maps.nls.uk/view/114583252#zoom=5&lat=1125&lon=6302&layers=BT 25" O.S. map ''Cheshire'' XXXIV.7 (1910; rev. 1908).]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/102341056#zoom=5&lat=5441&lon=9047&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Cheshire'' XXXIV (1882; surveyed 1874-77)]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/102341056#zoom=5&lat=5441&lon=9047&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Cheshire'' XXXIV (1882; surveyed 1874-77)]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/101598799#zoom=5&lat=1518&lon=2165&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Cheshire'' XXXIV.NE (1899; rev. 1897)]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/101598799#zoom=5&lat=1518&lon=2165&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Cheshire'' XXXIV.NE (1899; rev. 1897)]

Latest revision as of 16:44, 8 May 2022

Locality
Coordinate 53.2604, -2.4598
Adm. div. Cheshire
Vicinity Birches Lane, Lostock Green, c. 1 km south of Lostock Gralam
Type Building
Interest Robin Hood name
Status Defunct
First Record 1882
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The site of Robinhood Farm.
Looking down Birches Lane. Did the building, centre mid-distance, belong to Robinhood Farm? / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-17. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-05-08.

Robinhood Farm was located on Birches Lane in Lostock Green, a hamlet in Lostock Gralam, situated about 1 km south of the main town of the parish. The name is found on a 6" O.S. map of the area published in 1882, based on a survey carried out 1874-77. This is the earliest occurrence found so far.

The English Place-Name Society's volume on this part of Cheshire lists Robinhood Farm without source reference or date,[1] which suggests that the editor of the volume thought it likely to be of modern date. Robinhood Farm is included on all the O.S. maps listed below.

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Notes

  1. ↑ 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), vol. II, p. 191.



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