Robin Hood (Hitchin)

Locality
Coordinate	51.947664, -0.274779
Adm. div.	Hertfordshire
Vicinity	N side of Hollow Lane, near Queen Street
Type	Public house
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct
First Record	1721

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At or near the site of the Robin Hood.

The Robin Hood would have been located in this area / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-09-03. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-02-13.

The Robin Hood in Hitchin was situated on the north side of what is now Hollow Lane, at the west end of that street, near Queen Street. In existence by 1721, it was demolished in 1922 as part of a slum clearance effort.

The address of the pub was 2 St Andrew's Street. On 25" O.S. maps based on revisions carried out in 1922 or earlier, the first 100 meters of the present Hollow Lane is labelled 'St. Andrew's St.', whereafter it becomes Hollow Lane. On 6" O.S. maps dating from 1950 or earlier, the stretch of the street labelled 'St. Andrew's St.' on the 25" maps is not named. At some point after 1922, the entire length of the street was named Hollow Lane. Information on publicans and residents for 1839–1901 can be found at the excellent Pub Wiki.

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

• Hitchin Historical Society: Pub Crawl in Virtual Historical Hitchin (the link points to Google's cached copy, since the original at https://www.hitchinhistoricals.org.uk/history-of-hitchin/virtual-historical-pub-crawl-of-hitchin was categorized as a fraudulent site by Bitdefender as of 3 Sep. 2020)
• eHive: 1920s slum clearance; 1920s; 12074
• The Lost Pubs Project: Lost Pubs In Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
• Pub Wiki: Robin Hood, 2 St Andrews Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

Maps

The pub is not indicated or labelled on the maps.

• 25" O.S. map Hertfordshire XII.1 (c. 1881; surveyed 1851–80). No copy in NLS
• 25" O.S. map Hertfordshire XII.1 (1898; rev. 1897) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Hertfordshire XII.1 (1898; rev. 1897)
• 25" O.S. map Hertfordshire XII.1 (1923; rev. 1922)
• 6" O.S. map Hertfordshire XII (1884; surveyed 1878–81)
• 6" O.S. map Hertfordshire XII.NW (1899; rev. 1896–97) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Hertfordshire XII.NW (1899; rev. 1896–97)
• 6" O.S. map Hertfordshire XII.NW (1925; rev. 1922)
• 6" O.S. map Hertfordshire XII.NW (c. 1948; rev. 1946)
• 6" O.S. map Hertfordshire XII.NW (1950; rev. 1938–46).

Background

• Wikipedia: Hitchin.

Also see

• Public houses named after Robin Hood.

Notes

 Hertfordshire place-names 

 Place-names