Robinhood Lane (Mawdesley)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Blue Stone Lane north of Hand Lane junction and south of Syd Brook Lane.
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Blue Stone Lane north of Hand Lane junction and south of Syd Brook Lane was known as Robinhood Lane in the late 19th century. / Google Earth Street View.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-16.
A stretch of Blue Stone Lane in Mawdesley was known locally as 'Robinhood Lane' in the late 19th century and the early years of the 20th.
It is not difficult to see what inspired the name. Along this stretch – about 450 m – of road lay no less than four landscape features or buildings named after Robin Hood: an inn, a well, a cottage, and a cross.
Maps
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI.12 (c. 1894; rev. c. 1892-93).] No Copy in NLS
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI.16 (1894; surveyed 1893).
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI.12 (1910; rev. 1908) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI.16 (1910; rev. 1908)
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI.12 (1910; rev. 1908)
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI.12 (1928; rev. 1926)
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI.16 (1928; rev. 1926)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI (1847; surveyed 1845-46)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI.SE (1894; surveyed 1891-93)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI.SE (1911; rev. 1908) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI.SE (1911; rev. 1908)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI.SE (1929; rev. 1926).