Robin Hood Riding Centre (Bassenthwaite)

Locality
Coordinates	54.684088, -3.199696
Adm. div.	Cumberland
Vicinity	c. 500 m NNW of Bassenthwaite
Type	Establishment
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	1988

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Approximate indication of the facilities of the now defunct Robin Hood Riding Centre.

The sign reads 'Robin Hood Riding Centre' / Google Earth Street View. (Click to enlarge).

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-09-04. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-09-04.

'Robin Hood' is the name of a vicinity c. 2 km NE of Bassenthwaite Lake and c. 0.5 km NNW of Bassenthwaite village. It is included on the 6" O.S. map of the area published in 1867 as well as subsequent revisions (see Maps section below). Unless it originated as a name for the vicinity, 'Robin Hood' may initially have been used of the present Robin Hood Cottage or the adjacent Robin Hood Farm.

For the wood and various Robin Hood-related place-names within or close to 'Robin Hood' and the former riding centre, see Bassenthwaite place-name cluster.

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.

Sources

• Anonymous. 'Q&A', The New York Times (3 Jan. 1982), Travel section.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Cumberland XLVI.16 (1900; rev. 1898)
• 25" O.S. map Cumberland XLVI.16 (1925; rev. 1923)
• 6" O.S. map Cumberland XLVI (1867; surveyed 1864-65)
• 6" O.S. map Cumberland XLVI.SE (1900; rev. 1898)
• 6" O.S. map Cumberland XLVI.SE (1900; rev. 1898) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Cumberland XLVI.SE (1926; rev. 1923)

Background

• Wikipedia: Bassenthwaite.

Also see

• Bassenthwaite place-name cluster.

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