Robin Hood Inn (Rainow)

From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Locality
Coordinate 53.282811, -2.073057
Adm. div. Cheshire
Vicinity Church Lane, Rainow, Macclesfield
Type Public house
Interest Robin Hood name
Status Extant
First Record 1850
A.k.a. Robin Hood
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Robin Hood Inn.
Robin Hood Inn, Rainow / Garstonian, 31 May 2014, via Flickr.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-04-22.

Still in business, the Robin Hood Inn in Rainow, Macclesfield, was in existence by 1848.

The plot on which the pub stands figures in the 1848 tithe award for the 'Township of Rainow in the Parish of Prestbury' as 'Robin Hood Inn and Smithy Croft', with an area of 1 acre, 1 rood and 10 perches (5311.5 m2), state of cultivation cited as 'Meadow', and with James Etchells as landowner, James Gaskell Gaskell as occupier, i.e. publican.[1] It is listed as 'Robin Hood' in an 1850 directory with the wheelwright John Yarwood as victualler.[2] The pub is included on the 6" O.S. map of the area published in 1881 (see Maps section below).

Gazetteers

MS sources

  • 1848 tithe award for the 'Township of Rainow in the Parish of Prestbury', online at the Genealogist, Piece 05, sub-piece 335, Image 030, #583 (£)
  • accompanying map, online at the Genealogist, Piece 05, sub-piece 335, Sub-Image 001, #583 (£).

Printed sources

Maps

Background

Also see

Notes

  1. 1848 tithe award for the 'Township of Rainow in the Parish of Prestbury', online at the Genealogist, Piece 05, sub-piece 335, Image 030, #583 (£); accompanying map, online at the Genealogist, Piece 05, sub-piece 335, Sub-Image 001, #583 (£).
  2. University of Leicester: Special Collections Online: History, Gazetteer & Directory of Cheshire, 1850 - Page 256.