Robin Hood (Swinton)

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The Robin Hood.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|The Robin Hood / David Dixon, 21 Mar. 2010, Creative Commons, via Geograph.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-05-31.

A pub on 180 Manchester Road in Swinton, just south of Clifton, is named the Robin Hood.

The pub is included in a 6" O.S. map of the area published in 1850, based of a survey carried out 1844-46 (see Maps below). Dating from the 1930s, the present building was built on a bowling green that had belonged to the old pub. The pub's history went much further back, however, for already in 1739 a local Robin Hood Farm was operating an ale house, believed to have been the first in Clifton. In 1840 a new pub had been built and a brewhouse added. Clifton's bowling, football, and fishing clubs all used the pub as their headquarters. In 1900, "the annual show of the Clifton Gooseberry and Horticultural Society was held at the Robin Hood Hotel, Clifton".

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-11.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Lancashire XCV.12 (1893; surveyed 1891)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire XCV.12 (1909; rev. 1907) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire XCV.12 (1909; rev. 1907)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire XCV.12 (1928; rev. 1927)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire XCV.12 (1938; rev. 1937)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire XCV (1850; surveyed 1844-46)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire XCV.SE (1894; surveyed 1889-91)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire XCV.SE (1910; rev. 1907) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire XCV.SE (1910; rev. 1907)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire XCV.SE (1930; rev. 1926-27)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire XCV.SE (1936; rev. 1936-37)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire XCV.SE (1947; rev. 1938).

Discussion

• Pubs of Manchester, Past & Present: Robin Hood, Manchester Road.

Background

• I remember when Salford...: Clive's Memories.

Notes

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  The Robin Hood / David Dixon, 21 Mar. 2010, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

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  The Robin Hood / David Dixon, 21 Mar. 2010, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

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  The Robin Hood / Steve Fareham 26 Mar. 2009, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

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  The Robin Hood / Phillip Platt, 25 Feb. 2014, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

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  The Robin Hood, Swinton, Manchester / Google Earth Street View.

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  The Robin Hood, Swinton, Manchester / Google Earth Street View.