Robin Hood Farm (Mottram Moor)

Locality
Coordinate	53.458744, -1.998579
Adm. div.	Cheshire
Vicinity	On Carrhouse Lane, on S side of A57 in Mottram Moor, near Mottram in Longdendale and Hollingworth
Type	Building
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	2010

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Approximate, probable location of Robin Hood Farm.

Is this Robin Hood Farm? / Google Earth (click or tap to enlarge).

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-06-18. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-06-18.

There is a 'Robin Hood Farm' on Carrhouse Lane, a sidestreet of the A57, in Mottram Moor, near Mottram in Longdendale and Hollingworth. While the farm may well be much older than this, the earlist record on file dates from 2010.

The farm is mentioned that year in a publication by Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council. An online business directory has the farm on the west side of Carrhouse Lane. However, it seems clear from Google Maps satellite view that the houses on the west side of the lane are private homes, while opposite them, on the east side of the lane, there is what looks like a farm. The latter plot is indicated on the interactive map on the present page. It is clear from materials published by Highways England that the farm is located in this area.

There cannot be much doubt that the name of this farm is related to that of the long defunct Robin Hood pub on or near the southeast corner of Carrhouse Lane and the A57.

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

• Highways England. Trans-Pennine Upgrade Programme; Non-Statutory Consultation Report. Revision 0.6 (Guildford, 2017); search document for: Robin Hood, and see p. 1 fig. 1.
• Highways England. A57 Link Roads project; Preliminary Environmental Information Report. Vol. 1 ([Guildford], 2020); search document for: Robin Hood.
• TheLocalBusiness.co.uk: Robin Hood Farm, Carrhouse Lane, Hollingworth, Hyde, Hollingworth.
• Tameside MBC. Housing Land Supply 31st March 2010 (Demonstrating a 5 Year Supply of Deliverable Sites) ([s.l.], 2010), Table D: Small Sites (4 dwellings or fewer) with Full Planning Permission, p. 4.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Cheshire XI.3 (1886; surveyed 1872)
• 25" O.S. map Cheshire XI.3 (1898; rev. 1896) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Cheshire XI.3 (1898; rev. 1896)
• 25" O.S. map Cheshire XI.3 (1910; rev. 1907)
• 25" O.S. map Cheshire XI.3 (1938; rev. 1933–36)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XI (1882; surveyed 1872)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XI.NE (1899; rev. 1896–97) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XI.NE (1899; rev. 1896–97)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XI.NE (1911; rev. 1907)
• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire II (1924; rev. 1919)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XI.NE (c. 1945; rev. 1938)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XI.NE (c. 1950; rev. 1938).

Also see

• Mottram Moor place-name cluster.

Notes

 Cheshire place-names 

 Place-names