Robin Hood Inn (Holmesfield)

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The Robin Hood Inn, now the Old Robin Hood.

The Old Robin Hood / The Old Robin Hood's website.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-08-21. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-12.

The Robin Hood Inn, 1.2 km west of Holmesfield is first mentioned in an 1820 Enclosure Award.^[1] The inn closed in the first years of this millennium, apparently late in 2001, and is now rented out as holiday home.^[2]

Gazetteers

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

Sources

Cameron, Kenneth. The Place-Names of Derbyshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXVII-XXIX) (Cambridge, 1959), pt. II, p. 266.

Maps

6" O.S. map Derbyshire XVII.NE (1883; surveyed 1876); 'Robin Hood'.
6" O.S. map Derbyshire XVII.NE (1899; rev. 1897); 'Robin Hood Inn'.
6" O.S. map Derbyshire XVII (1924; rev. 1919); 'Robin Hood Inn'.

Background

The Old Robin Hood.

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Notes

↑ Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 296, s.n. 'Robin Hood Inn'.
↑ The Old Robin Hood; Sheffiedl Forum.

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The Old Robin Hood / The Old Robin Hood's website.
The Old Robin Hood / The Old Robin Hood's website.
The Old Robin Hood / The Old Robin Hood's website.
The Old Robin Hood / The Old Robin Hood's website.
The Old Robin Hood / The Old Robin Hood's website.
The Old Robin Hood / The Old Robin Hood's website.

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[1] Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 296, s.n. 'Robin Hood Inn'.

[2] The Old Robin Hood; Sheffiedl Forum.

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