Robinhood Farm (Lostock Gralam)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
| Locality | |
|---|---|
| Coordinate | 53.2604, -2.4598 |
| Adm. div. | Cheshire |
| Vicinity | In Lostock Green, c. 1 km south of Lostock Gralam |
| Type | Building |
| Interest | Robin Hood name |
| Status | Defunct |
| First Record | 1923 |
The site of Robinhood Farm.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-17. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-06-09.
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.
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. The earliest reference IRHB has found so far concerns a woman born at Robinhood Farm in 1923.[2] The farm was located on the west side of a lane off Birches Lane, immediately east of the A556 (which did not exist then).
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
- 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, pp. 190, 191.
- Dodgson's Funeral Service in Knutsford & George Bell Funeral Service in Northwich.
Maps
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXIV (1882; surveyed 1874-77)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXIV.NE (1899; rev. 1897)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXIV.NE (1899; rev. 1897) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXIV.NE (1911; rev. 1908)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXIV.NE (c. 1945; rev. 1938)
Background
Also see
Notes
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Dodgson's Funeral Service in Knutsford & George Bell Funeral Service in Northwich. Also see Village Links – 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.