Robin Hood House (Berry Brow)

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Approximate location of Robin Hood House.

Robin Hood House / Kirklees Image Archive.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-04. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-18.

The English Place-Name Society volume that covers the Huddersfield area lists Robin Hood Hill and Robin Hood House (under Almondbury parish) without any source reference, which usually indicates a modern date. Robin Hood Hill is the name of a c. 200 m long section of a lane off Woodhead Road. A short, roughly L-shaped side road is named Hood Street. Robin Hood House is located on Hood Street. There are now only two houses on Hood Street; of these the one indicated on the Google map looks most like the house on the old photograph.

Notes

Gazetteers

• Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 309.

Sources

• Adkin, Valerie. 'An Unexpected Discovery', Huddersfield Local History Society Journal, No. 18 (2006-2007), pp. ?-?. Not seen.
• Smith, A.H. The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXX-XXXVII) (Cambridge, 1961-63), pt. II, p. 261.

Also see

• Berry Brow place-name cluster
• Places named Robin Hood's House.