Robin Hood Hotel (Chorley)

Locality
Coordinate	53.65553, -2.628327
Adm. div.	Lancashire
Vicinity	126 Clifford Street, Chorley
Type	Public house
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct
First Record	1876
A.k.a.	Robin Hood

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Site of The Robin Hood Hotel; 126 Clifford Street, Chorley.

The Robin Hood Hotel / Chorley's Inns and Taverns: Robin Hood Hotel, by Richard Langford

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-22. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.

The Robin Hood Hotel at 126 Clifford Street in Chorley existed under that name by 1875. It closed and its premises were demolished c. 1989.

The Robin Hood Hotel is said to date back to the 1860's when Clifford Street was developed. However, the first notice with a certain date is in a newspaper article from 23 Aug. 1876. At the rear of the hotel was an added attraction in the form a large bowling green. The premises of the pub were among the buildings demolished to make way for the south-bound carriageway of the Chorley By-pass (A6) c. 1989. Topps Tiles (see photo in image gallery below) now occupies the area that was once the pub's bowling green.

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

• Chorley's Inns and Taverns: Robin Hood Hotel by Richard Langford.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVII.8 (1894; surveyed 1889-93)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVII.8 (1910; rev. 1909) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVII.8 (1910; rev. 1909)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVII.8 (1928; rev. 1927)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVII.8 (1940; rev. 1938)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVII (1849; surveyed 1844-47)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVII.NE (1895; surveyed 1888-93)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVII.NE (1912; rev. 1909) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVII.NE (1912; rev. 1909)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVII.NE (1930; rev. 1927)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVII.NE (1947; rev. 1938).

Also see

• Public houses named after Robin Hood.

Notes

Image gallery

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  The Robin Hood Hotel / Chorley's Inns and Taverns: Robin Hood Hotel, by Richard Langford

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  Bowling green behind the pub / Chorley's Inns and Taverns: Robin Hood Hotel, by Richard Langford

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  Topps Tiles now occupy the former bowling green / Google Earth Street View.

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