Robinhood Pool (Hazel Grove)

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The site of Robin Hood Pool.

Site of Robinhood Pool / Google Earth StreetView.

Yellow marker indicates the site of Robinhood Pool, seen from the air before the construction work in the preceding photo began / Google Earth StreetView.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-19. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-04.

The Robinhood Pool was located immediately west of the Robin Hood Inn in what was then known as Norbury but is now part of Hazel Grove, While the inn is first recorded in an 1849 tithe award, the earliest source I know of for the pool is from 1970.

By a remarkable coincidence, in Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire, across the street from a public house named the Robin Hood we find Robin Hood Dip , which also contains a small island, the Giant's Grave.

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. I, p. 288.

Maps

• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XX.SW (1882; surveyed 1871-72)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XX.SW (1899; rev. 1896-97)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XX.SW (1899; rev. 1896-97) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XX.SW (1912; rev. 1907)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XX.SW (c. 1946; rev. 1938).

Also see

• Hazel Grove place-name cluster
• Cherry Hinton place-name cluster.

Notes