Robin Hood Farm (Appley Bridge)

Loading map...

{"minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"mappingservice":"leaflet","width":"34%","height":"400px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":false,"defzoom":9,"layers":["OpenStreetMap","NLS","Stamen.Terrain"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":true,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","imageLayers":[],"locations":[],"imageoverlays":null}

Robin Hood Farm (Appley Bridge).

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Robin Hood Farm driveway, the closest we can get to the farm itself with the Google photo car / Google Earth Street View.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-01-10. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-05-17.

Robin Hood Farm is located on the east side of Robin Hood Lane between Hill House Fold Lane and Sparrow Hill/Hall Lane (A5209) in a hamlet named Robin Hood.

The earliest records of the name known to IRHB are the 6" and 25" O.S. maps published in 1894, based on surveys carried out in 1892-93, respectively 1892 (see Maps below).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.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXXV.5 (1894; surveyed 1892)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXXV.5 (1908; rev. 1907) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXXV.5 (1908; rev. 1907)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXXV.5 (1928; rev. 1927)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXXV (1849; surveyed 1845-46)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXXV.NW (1894; surveyed 1892-93)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXXV.NW (1909; rev. 1907) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXXV.NW (1909; rev. 1907)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXXV.NW (1929; rev. 1927)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXXV.NW (1947; rev. 1938).

Template:PnItemNav