Robin Hood (Wisbech)

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Approximate location of the Robin Hood.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-20. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-20.

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.

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.

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