Robin Hood (Newbury)

Locality
Coordinate	51.406694, -1.31613
Adm. div.	Berkshire
Vicinity	London Road, immediately east of intersection of A339, London Road, A4, and Shaw Road, in Newbury
Type	Public house
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	1796
A.k.a.	Toby Carvery; Toby Carvery – Robin Hood

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Toby Carvery – Robin Hood.

The Robin Hood lives on as a restaurant / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-04-30. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-05-05.

The Robin Hood on London Road in Newbury, first recorded in 1796, is still in business, now as a Toby Carvery, but still with 'Robin Hood' as part of its name.

The excellent Pub History site, which provides a list of known publicans for the years 1796-1911, somewhat confusingly includes photos of two different buildings, referring to both as the Robin Hood in Newbury. One of them, which is clearly recognizable as the present Robin Hood, is included with another pub on a photo that must have been taken in 1966 when its neighbour the Robin Hood Roundabout was under construction. The other photo is accompanied by the legend 'Robin Hood, Newbury, before moving to Myrtles'. According to the Lost Pubs Project, the latter Robin Hood 'situated on London Road [...] was converted to a private house following closure and has now been demolished'. From what one can see of the pub sign in the photo of this now defunct pub it does not seem to depict Robin Hood. Unless the Robin Hood had two consecutive addresses, both on London Road, and in both cases in old buildings, there must be some mistake. This there also must be when another site, discussing the Robin Hood Roundabout, notes that to make room for it '[m]any buildings were demolished to create the new roundabout, and a new pub called Robin Hood was built'. As noted above, the Robin Hood pub existed long before the roundabout was constructed. No doubt its name inspired that of the gyratory.

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

• The Lost Pubs Project: Robin Hood
• Newbury History: Timeline of Newbury
• Sabre: Robin Hood Roundabout (Newbury)
• Pub History: Robin Hood, London Road, Newbury, Berkshire.

Maps

Maps of the area.

• 25" O.S. map Berkshire XXXV.13 (c. 1880, surveyed 1878). No copy in NLS
• 25" O.S. map Berkshire XXXV.13 (1900, rev. 1898) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Berkshire XXXV.13 (1900; rev. 1898)
• 25" O.S. map Berkshire XXXV.13 (1911; rev. 1910)
• 25" O.S. map Berkshire XXXV.13 (1933; rev. 1932)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXXV (1883; surveyed 1877-1878)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXXV.SW (1900, rev. 1898) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXXV.SW (1900; rev. 1898)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXXV.SW (1913; rev. 1910)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXXV.SW (c. 1933; rev. 1932)
• 6" O.S. map Berkshire XXXV.SW (c. 1944; rev. 1938).

Also see

• Newbury place-name cluster
• Public houses named after Robin Hood.

Notes

 Berkshire place-names 

 Place-names