Robin Hood Inn (Rainow)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Locality | |
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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 |
Robin Hood Inn.
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
- 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
- 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
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXVII (1881; rev. 1870-72)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXVII.NW (1899; rev. 1896-97) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXVII.NW (1911; rev. 1907)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXVII.NW (c. 1933; rev. 1907)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXVII.NW (c. 1937; rev. 1907)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXVII.NW (c. 1947; rev. 1938).
Background
- Facebook: Friends of the Robin Hood at Rainow
- Facebook: The Robin Hood, Rainow
- Happy Valley, Bollington: Robin Hood Inn.
Also see
Notes
- ↑ 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 (£).
- ↑ University of Leicester: Special Collections Online: History, Gazetteer & Directory of Cheshire, 1850 - Page 256.