Robin Hood Inn (Hazel Grove)
| Locality | |
|---|---|
| Coordinate | 53.367755, -2.094698 |
| Adm. div. | Cheshire |
| Vicinity | On the north side of Buxton Road, immediately west of Norbury Hollow Road |
| Type | Public house |
| Interest | Robin Hood name |
| Status | Defunct |
| First Record | 1849 |
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-19. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-05-08.
The long gone Robin Hood Inn situated on the north side of Buxton Road, immediately west of Norbury Hollow Road, south of Stockport, was in existence by 1849.
The pub figures as 'Robin Hood Public House' in the 1849 tithe award for Norbury Moor. The then township of Norbury, with Norbury Moor, is now part of Hazel Grove. The landowner was Thomas Legh, Esq., the occupier Elizabeth Hyde. The property covered an area of 21 perches (531.15 m2).[1] A longish garden with an area of 30 perches (758.79 m2) extended westwards immediately north of – and behind – the neighbouring houses. Listed in the tithe award with the same occupier and landowner as the pub, this may well have been a pub garden rather than the private garden of the publican.[2] Elizabeth Hyde is listed as 'vict[ualler]' in the 1850 History, Gazetteer & Directory of Cheshire.[3]
Immediately east of the pub there was formerly a Robinhood Pool with a small island in it. A somewhat similar sitation is seen in Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire, where across the street from a public house named the Robin Hood we find Robin Hood Dip, which also contains a small island, the Giant's Grave. Unlike the latter, if the island in Robinhood Pool had a name, IRHB is not aware of it.
The pub and the pool are both included on the O.S. maps listed below.
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.
MS sources
- 1849 tithe award for the 'Township of Norbury in the Parish of Stockport' [actually Norbury Moor], online at the Genealogist, Piece 05, sub-piece 297, Image 013, #318, #321 (£)
- accompanying map, online at the Genealogist, Piece 05, sub-piece 297, Sub-Image 001, #318, #321 (£).
Printed sources
- University of Leicester: Special Collections Online: History, Gazetteer & Directory of Cheshire, 1850 – Page 335
- Dodgson, John McN.; Rumble, Alexander R. The Place-Names of Cheshire, pts. I-V (English Place-Name Society, vols. XLIV-XLVIII, LIV, LXXIV) (Cambridge, 1970-72; [s.l.], 1981; Nottingham, 1997), vol. I, p. 288.
Maps
- 25" O.S. map Cheshire XX.9 (c. 1877; surveyed c. 1876). No copy in NLS.
- 25" O.S. map Cheshire XX.9 (1898; rev. 1896) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Cheshire XX.9 (1898; rev. 1896–97)
- 25" O.S. map Cheshire XX.9 (1938; rev. 1936)
- 25" O.S. map Cheshire XX.9 (1934; rev. 1907)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XX (1881; surveyed 1871–72)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XX.SW (1899; rev. 1896-97) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XX.SW (1899; rev. 1896-97)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XX.SW (1912; rev. 1907)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XX.SW (c. 1946; rev. 1938).
Also see
- Hazel Grove place-name cluster
- Cherry Hinton place-name cluster
- Public houses named after Robin Hood.
Notes
- ↑ 1849 tithe award for the 'Township of Norbury in the Parish of Stockport' [actually Norbury Moor], online at the Genealogist, Piece 05, sub-piece 297, Image 013, #321 (£); accompanying map, online at the Genealogist, Piece 05, sub-piece 297, Sub-Image 001, #321 (£). Also see Dodgson, John McN.; Rumble, Alexander R. The Place-Names of Cheshire, pts. I-V (English Place-Name Society, vols. XLIV-XLVIII, LIV, LXXIV) (Cambridge, 1970-72; [s.l.], 1981; Nottingham, 1997), vol. I, p. 288.
- ↑ The garden is plot No. 318 in the tithe award.
- ↑ University of Leicester: Special Collections Online: History, Gazetteer & Directory of Cheshire, 1850 – Page 335, under Norbury: 'Hyde Eliz. vict. Robin Hood'.
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The former Robin Hood Inn / Google Earth Street View.
Detail of 1849 tithe map. Robin Hood Inn (#321); proprietor's garden (#318); Robinhood Pool (#269) (click or tap to enlarge) / © Crown Copyright Images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England. www.NationalArchives.gov.uk and www.TheGenealogist.co.uk.
