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An 1850 trade directory lists a pub named the Robin Hood at the market place in Wisbech. The proprietor was then a George Cole Thurston.<ref>{{:Slater, Isaac 1850a}}, p. 55 of the Cambridgeshire section.</ref> | An 1850 trade directory lists a pub named the Robin Hood at the market place in Wisbech. The proprietor was then a George Cole Thurston.<ref>{{:Slater, Isaac 1850a}}, p. 55 of the Cambridgeshire section.</ref> | ||
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Some of the O.S. maps listed below indicate inns and a hotel around the perimeter of the Market Place, but they include no names.{{PnItemQry}} | |||
== Gazetteers == | == Gazetteers == | ||
* Not included in {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, pp. 293-311. | * Not included in {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, pp. 293-311. |
Revision as of 16:15, 1 June 2019
The Market Place in Wisbech, where the Robin Hood was located.
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|The Market Place in Wisbech / Google Earth street View.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-20. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-06-01.
An 1850 trade directory lists a pub named the Robin Hood at the market place in Wisbech. The proprietor was then a George Cole Thurston.[1]
Some of the O.S. maps listed below indicate inns and a hotel around the perimeter of the Market Place, but they include no names.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. 293-311.
Sources
- Slater, Isaac, compil. Slater's (Late Pigot & Co.) Royal National and Commercial Directory and Topography of the Counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, and Suffolk (Manchester and London, 1850), p. 55 of the Cambridgeshire section.
Maps
- 25" O.S. map Cambridgeshire VII.3 (1888; surveyed 1885). No Copy in NLS
- 25" O.S. map Cambridgeshire VII.3 (1902; rev. 1900) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Cambridgeshire VII.3 (1902; rev. 1900)
- 25" O.S. map Cambridgeshire VII.3 (1927; rev. 1925)
- 6" O.S. map Cambridgeshire VII.NE (1887; surveyed 1886)
- 6" O.S. map Cambridgeshire VII.NE (1903; rev. 1900) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Cambridgeshire VII.NE (1903; rev. 1900)
- 6" O.S. map Cambridgeshire VII.NE (1927; rev. 1925)
- 6" O.S. map Cambridgeshire VII.NE (c. 1933; rev. 1925)
- 6" O.S. map Cambridgeshire VII.NE (c. 1946; rev. 1938)
- 6" O.S. map Cambridgeshire VII.NE (1953; rev. 1950).
Background
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