Robin Hood Inn (Holmesfield)

Locality
Coordinate	53.2957, -1.5392
Adm. div.	Derbyshire
Vicinity	By B6054, 1.2 km W of Holmesfield
Type	Public house
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	1820

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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, 2021-01-07.

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

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.

Also see

• Public houses named after Robin Hood.

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