Robin Hood (Brighouse)

Locality
Coordinate	53.698982, -1.764923
Adm. div.	West Riding of Yorkshire
Vicinity	16 Wakefield Road, Brighouse
Type	Public house
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	1893

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Approcimate location of the Robin Hood.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

J. Horsfall Turner in 1893 mentioned a public house near Little John Mill and Robin Hood Mill "where 'If Robin Hood be not at home, | Come take a glass (gingerbeer) with Little John.'" These lines may well have referred to the pub at No. 16.

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

• Turner, J. Horsfall. The History of Brighouse, Rastrick, and Hipperholme; with Manorial Notes on Coley, Lightcliffe, Northowram, Shelf, Fixby, Clifton and Kirklees (Bingley, Yorkshire, 1893), p. 203.

Also see

• Brighouse place-name cluster
• Public houses named after Robin Hood.

Notes

 West Riding of Yorkshire place-names 

 Yorkshire place-names 

 Place-names