Robin Hood Inn (Baslow)

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The Robin Hood Inn.

The Robin Hood Inn, Baslow / Inns website.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-04-05.

The Robin Hood or Robin Hood Inn, which is still found at Chesterfield Road, Baslow, is first recorded on an 1840 1" O.S. map of the area. It also figures on 6" maps from 1899 and 1923. The Robin Hood seems to have given its name to the hamlet that grew up around it.Template:PnItemQry

Gazetteers

• Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 296, s.n. "Robin Hood".

Sources

• Cameron, Kenneth. The Place-Names of Derbyshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXVII-XXIX) (Cambridge, 1959), pt. I, p. 42.

Maps

• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire Sheet XXIV.NW (1899, revised 1897)
• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire Sheet XXIV.NW (1923, revised 1919-20).

Background

• Dalrymple-Smith, David. Barslow in the 1820: or how the Duke got his Golden Gate ([s.l.], 2013).
• Barslow Enclosure Act 1824; the enclosure award does not mention Robin Hood as the name of the hamlet or inn.
• The Robin Hood Inn, Baslow (pub website).

Notes