Robin Hood figure (Mottram Moor)
Locality | |
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Coordinate | 53.45897, -2.00017 |
Adm. div. | Cheshire |
Vicinity | At a well on or near Carrhouse Lane, on S side of A57 in Mottram Moor, near Mottram in Longdendale |
Type | Artifact |
Interest | Artifacts |
Status | Extant |
First Record | 1993 |
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-06-18. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-06-18.
A sculpture found at or near a well on or near Carrhouse Lane in Mottram Moor was believed locally to depict Robin Hood and was accordingly known under that name.
The artifact was described as follows in 1998:
The sculpture was acquired by Manchester Museum in 1974.[2] The local traditions were first recorded as late as 1993 and 1996.[3] If the name of the public house was in fact inspired by the sculpture, the latter would have to have been discovered no later than 1798, when the Robin Hood public house first figures in the records. While this is of course possible, it must be noted that IRHB currently includes information on 236 public houses named after Robin Hood, and with the possible – though not likely – exception of this at Mottram Moor, not one of them seems to have needed such an exotic reason to acquire the name Robin Hood. In all probability the Robin Hood Farm also situated on Carrhouse Lane was named after the public house, but of course it might also owe its name to the sculpture if this were recorded before 1798.
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
Maps
- 25" O.S. map Cheshire XI.3 (1886; surveyed 1872)
- 25" O.S. map Cheshire XI.3 (1898; rev. 1896) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Cheshire XI.3 (1898; rev. 1896)
- 25" O.S. map Cheshire XI.3 (1910; rev. 1907)
- 25" O.S. map Cheshire XI.3 (1938; rev. 1933–36)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XI (1882; surveyed 1872)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XI.NE (1899; rev. 1896–97) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XI.NE (1899; rev. 1896–97)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XI.NE (1911; rev. 1907)
- 6" O.S. map Derbyshire II (1924; rev. 1919)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XI.NE (c. 1945; rev. 1938)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XI.NE (c. 1950; rev. 1938).
Background
Also see
Notes
- ↑ Clarke, David. The Head Cult: Tradition and Folklore surrounding the Symbol of the Severed Human Head in the British Isles. Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. National Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language, Division of Adult Continuing Education, University of Sheffield, 1998, pp. 228-29, 263 nn. 78, 79. IRHB's brackets.
- ↑ Clarke, op. cit., p. 263 n. 78. Manchester Museum collection accession number, 1974.46.
- ↑ Clarke, op. cit., p. 263 n. 79.