Cheshire place-names

From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Adm. div.
Full name Cheshire
Abbreviation Ches
Coordinate 53.166667, -2.583333
Area (1801) 2861.44315 km2[1]
Population (1801) 192305[1]
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Localities named after Robin Hood (or members of his band) in Cheshire. Click cluster marker for locality markers. Click locality marker for link to page. Historical county boundary co­ordi­nates provided by the Historic Counties Trust.
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Lower Robin Hood Lane (Helsby)¤|Loxley Hall (Helsby)¤|Robin Hood Avenue (Sutton)¤|Sherwood Grove (Helsby)¤|Sherwood Road (Sutton)¤|Robin Hood (Mottram Moor)¤1798|Dipping Stone (Whaley Moor)¤1810|Robin Hood's Bow Stones (Lyme Handley)¤1810|Robin Hood Green (Lostock Gralam)¤1831|Robinhood (Sutton)¤1831|Little John Field (Coppenhall Moss)¤1838|Robin Hood (Wharton)¤1838|Robin Hood's Butts (Weaverham) (1)¤1839|Robin Hood's Butts (Weaverham) (2)¤1839|Robin Hood's Butts (Weaverham) (3)¤1839|Robin Hood's Butts (Weaverham) (4)¤1839|Robin Hood Croft (Tilstone Fearnall)¤1840|Plumpton Park (Baddington)¤1841|Higher Robin Hood Field (Helsby)¤1844|Little John Croft (Antrobus)¤1844|Lower Robin Hood Field (Helsby)¤1844|Robin Hood (Helsby)¤1844|Robin Hood Field (Helsby)¤1844|Robin Hood's Well (Knutsford)¤1847|Little Robin Hood Hay (Agden)¤1848|Robin Hood Hay (Agden)¤1848|Robin Hood Inn (Hazel Grove)¤1849|Robin Hood (Cheadle Heath)¤1850|Robin Hood (Congleton)¤1850|Robin Hood (Stockport)¤1850|Robin Hood Inn (Rainow)¤1850|Robin Hood Lane (Helsby)¤1861|Robin Hood's Well (Little Budworth)¤1881|Robinhood Pool (Hazel Grove)¤1881|Robin Hood's Cottage (Knutsford)¤1882|Robinhood Farm (Lostock Gralam)¤1882|Ivanhoe (Hartford)¤1898|Robin Hood's Tump (Tilstone Fearnall)¤1936|Robin Hood figure (Mottram Moor)¤1993|Robin Hood House (Lostock Gralam)¤2006|Robin Hood Farm (Mottram Moor)¤2010|

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-19. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-06-06.

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County description

The Historic Counties Trust describes Cheshire as follows:

West to east, Cheshire reaches from the windswept Wirral peninsula up into the Peak District. The north encompasses industrial towns and the suburbs from Manchester and Liverpool, fading into the agricultural south of the county. Cheshire has been called "the Surrey of the North". The City of Chester retains many mediæval features, including the only surviving complete town wall walk. Inland Cheshire forms a vast plain separating the mountains of Wales from the Peak District of Derbyshire. In the Cheshire plain are fine oak woodlands and countless small lakes or meres. At the county's western extremity is the Wirral, a flat peninsula some 12 miles long by 7 miles wide separating the Dee and the Mersey. The Wirral is now largely urbanized. At its easternmost extremity the parish of Tintwistle runs up into the Peaks; a narrow strip between Derbyshire and Lancashire. Cheshire excels in dairy farming, resulting in Cheshire cheese. Much of central Cheshire is a salt-mining area, as it has been since Saxon times, chiefly around Nantwich, Northwich and Middlewich. There are also coal and iron mines.

Main Towns: Altrincham, Birkenhead, Chester, Crewe, Halton, Hoylake, Knutsford, Macclesfield, Nantwich, Sale, Stalybridge, Stockport, Wilmslow.
Main Rivers: Dee, Mersey, Weaver, Dane.
Highlights: Alderley Edge; Chester; Little Moreton Hall; Jodrell Bank Observatory.
Highest Point: Black Hill, 581.56 m.
Area: 2659.92 km.[2]

Chronology

18th Century

1 Robin Hood-related place-name first documented in the 18th century.

19th Century

29 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 19th century.

20th Century

5 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 20th century.

21st Century

2 Robin Hood-related place-names first documented in the 21st century.

Local traditions

1 Locality with local traditions relating to Robin Hood.

Artifacts

1 Robin Hood-related artifact.

Miscellaneous

2 Miscellaneous place-names and localities.

All localities

41 Place-names and localities.

Place-name clusters

10 Clusters of Robin Hood place-names, localities with local traditions, literary locales etc.

Lists and gazetteers

Background

Neighbours

Notes