Robin Hood (Langley)

Locality
Coordinate	51.9944, 0.1049
Adm. div.	Essex
Vicinity	Bull Lane, Upper Green, Langley
Type	Public house
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct
First Record	1933
A.k.a.	Old Robin Hood

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The former Robin Hood.

The former Robin Hood / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-05-25. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-02-13.

At least for thirty years or so inhabitants of Upper Green, Langley, Essex, could quench their thirst at the Robin Hood on Bull Lane.

The Pub Wiki lists records for the years 1933-37 only. However, we can extend the documented life of this pub a bit, for it is included on a 25" O.S. map of the area published in 1921 (surveyed 1919) and on 6" O.S. maps published in 1924 (rev. 1919), 1950 (rev. 1946–49) and 1951 (rev. 1946). It is labelled 'B.H. (for 'beer house') on the maps (see Maps below). Websites listing real estate sales know the building as the 'Old Robin Hood'.

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

• Pub Wiki: Robin Hood, Langley.

Maps

• 25" map Cambridgeshire LXIIB.9 (1888; surveyed 1877). No copy in NLS
• 25" O.S. map Cambridgeshire LXIIB.9 (1903; rev. 1896) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Cambridgeshire LXIIB.9 (1903; rev. 1896)
• 25" O.S. map Essex (1921; rev. 1919)
• 6" O.S. map Hertfordshire IX (1880–83; surveyed 1876.)
• 6" O.S. map Essex VIII (1881; surveyed 1876–77)
• 6" O.S. map Essex VIII.SW (1898; rev. 1896)
• 6" O.S. map Hertfordshire IX.NE (1899; rev. 1896)
• 6" O.S. map Cambridgeshire LXIIB.SW (1903; rev. 1901) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Cambridgeshire LXIIB.SW (1903; rev. 1901)
• 6" O.S. map Essex nXII (1924; rev. 1919)
• 6" O.S. map Essex nXII (1950; rev. 1946–49)
• 6" O.S. map Cambridgeshire LXIIB.SW (1951; rev. 1946).

Background

• Wikipedia: Langley, Essex
• Zoopla: The Old Robin Hood, Langley Upper Green, Saffron Walden CB11 4RU.

Also see

• Public houses named after Robin Hood.

Notes

 Essex place-names 

 Place-names