Robin Hood Street (Cheetham Hill, Manchester)

Locality
Coordinate	53.511703, -2.245361
Adm. div.	Lancashire
Vicinity	Side street of Cheetham Hill Road, immediately S of No. 591; Cheetham Hill
Type	Thoroughfare
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	1922

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Robin Hood Street, Cheetham Hill, Manchester.

Robin Hood Street, Cheetham Hill, Manchester / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-03-01. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-02-13.

The short cul-de-sac named 'Robin Hood Street' on the west side of Cheetham Hill Road, immediately sourth of 591 Cheetham Hill Road, in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, is first recorded on O.S. maps dating from 1922.

The street must have been named after the Robin Hood on the corner of Robin Hood Street and Cheetham Hill Road.

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

• 25" O.S. map Lancashire XCVI.14 (1893; surveyed 1889)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire XCVI.14 (c. 1909; rev. c. 1907). No copy in NLS
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire XCVI.14 (1922; rev. 1915) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire XCVI.14 (1922; rev. 1915)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire XCVI.14 (1932; rev. 1932)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire XCVI.SW (1910; rev. 1906-1907) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire XCVI (1848; surveyed 1844-45)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire XCVI.SW (1894; surveyed 1889-91)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire XCVI.SW (1910; rev. 1906-1907)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire XCVI (1923; rev. 1915)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire XCVI.SW (1923; rev. 1915)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire XCVI.SW (1932; rev. 1932)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire XCVI.SW (1946; rev. 1938).

Also see

• Cheetham Hill, Manchester place-name cluster
• Manchester place-name cluster.

 Lancashire place-names 

 Place-names