Robin Hood (Wisbech)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
| Locality | |
|---|---|
| Coordinate | 52.665111, 0.16097 |
| Adm. div. | Cambridgeshire |
| Vicinity | At the Market Place |
| Type | Public house |
| Interest | Robin Hood name |
| Status | Defunct |
| First Record | 1850 |
The Market Place in Wisbech, where the Robin Hood was located.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-20. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-02-13.
An 1850 trade directory lists a pub named the Robin Hood at the market place in Wisbech. The proprietor was then a George Cole Thurston.[1]
Some of the O.S. maps listed below indicate inns and a hotel on the perimeter of the Market Place, but they include no names.
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
- Slater, Isaac, compil. Slater's (Late Pigot & Co.) Royal National and Commercial Directory and Topography of the Counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, and Suffolk (Manchester and London, 1850), p. 55 of the Cambridgeshire section.
Maps
- 25" O.S. map Cambridgeshire VII.3 (1888; surveyed 1885). No copy in NLS
- 25" O.S. map Cambridgeshire VII.3 (1902; rev. 1900) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Cambridgeshire VII.3 (1902; rev. 1900)
- 25" O.S. map Cambridgeshire VII.3 (1927; rev. 1925)
- 6" O.S. map Cambridgeshire VII.NE (1887; surveyed 1886)
- 6" O.S. map Cambridgeshire VII.NE (1903; rev. 1900) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Cambridgeshire VII.NE (1903; rev. 1900)
- 6" O.S. map Cambridgeshire VII.NE (1927; rev. 1925)
- 6" O.S. map Cambridgeshire VII.NE (c. 1933; rev. 1925)
- 6" O.S. map Cambridgeshire VII.NE (c. 1946; rev. 1938)
- 6" O.S. map Cambridgeshire VII.NE (1953; rev. 1950).
Background
Also see
Notes