Robin Hood Inn (Rainow)

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Robin Hood Inn.

Robin Hood Inn, Rainow / Garstonian, 31 May 2014, via Flickr.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-05-16.

The first record I have so far found of the the Robin Hood Inn in Rainow, Macclesfield, is a 6" O.S. map of the area published in 1881 (see Maps section below).

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

• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXVII (1881; rev. 1870-72)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXVII.NW (1899; rev. 1896-97) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXVII.NW (1911; rev. 1907)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXVII.NW (c. 1933; rev. 1907)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXVII.NW (c. 1937; rev. 1907)
• 6" O.S. map Cheshire XXXVII.NW (c. 1947; rev. 1938).

Background

• Dodgson, John McN.; Rumble, Alexander R. The Place-Names of Cheshire, pts. I-V (English Place-Name Society, vols. XLIV-XLVIII, LIV, LXXIV) (Cambridge, 1970-72; [s.l.], 1981; Nottingham, 1997) does not mention the Robin Hood Inn in Rainow.