Robin Hood (Precinct, Coventry)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
The Precinct, near which Smithford Street ran.
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|The Precinct, near which Smithford Street ran. / Google Maps Street View.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-10-29. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-10-29.
In the early 18th century and perhaps earlier there seems to have been a Robin Hood pub on Smithford Street in central Coventry. The street disappeared as a victim of post-WWII reconstruction efforts in Coventry, the pub was already history two hundred years before the war began. A conveyance dated 1738 and a lease dated 1739 are said to refer to it as the former Robin Hood.[1]Template:PnItemQry
Gazetteers
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 315-19.
Sources
Maps
- 25" O.S. map Warwickshire XXI.12 (1889; surveyed 1887)
- 25" O.S. map Warwickshire XXI.12 (1906; rev. 1903-1905) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Warwickshire XXI.12 (1906; rev. 1903-1905)
- 25" O.S. map Warwickshire XXI.12 (1914; rev. 1912)
- 25" O.S. map Warwickshire XXI.12 (1940; rev. 1937). No Copy in NLS]
- 6" O.S. map Warwickshire XXI.SE (1888; surveyed 1887)
- 6" O.S. map Warwickshire XXI.SE (1906; rev. 1903-1905) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Warwickshire XXI.SE (1906; rev. 1903-1905)
- 6" O.S. map Warwickshire XXI.SE (1919; rev. 1912)
- 6" O.S. map Warwickshire XXI.SE (1926; rev. 1923)
- 6" O.S. map Warwickshire XXI.SE (c. 1944; rev. 1938)
- 6" O.S. map Warwickshire XXI.SE (c. 1947; rev. 1938).
Background
Notes
- ↑ These records from the Jervis Estate are held by Lincoln Records Office, according to the excellent Coventry historical pubs section of Real Ale Rambles, which unfortunately provides no source reference.