Robin Hood Inn (Ironbridge)

Locality
Coordinate	52.626957, -2.47309
Adm. div.	Shropshire
Vicinity	33 Waterloo Street, Ironbridge, Telford
Type	Public house
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	1847
A.k.a.	Ye Olde Robin Hood Inn

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The Robin Hood Inn, near the Ironbridge, Telford.

The Robin Hood Inn, Telford / From the pub's website.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-31. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-02-12.

The Robin Hood Inn in what was formerly Madeley parish, now Ironbridge in the borough of Telford and Wrekin, is noted in the English Place-Name Society's first volume on Shropshire, referring to an 1849 tithe award. The latter, on inspection, turns out to have been drawn up in 1847 but received by the Tithe Commission in 1849. The plot, measuring 27 perches (682.91 m²), owned by Francis and John Yates, the occupier a John Bailey, was then described as "The Robin Hood Inn[:] Buildings & Garden". Bailey also rented from the same owners an adjacent stable occupying one half perch (12.65 m²). The inn is currently known as Ye Olde Robin Hood Inn.

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.

MS sources

• The Genealogist: Madeley tithe award, Piece 29, Sub-Piece 211, Image 122 (1847) (£)
• The Genealogist: Madeley tithe map, Piece 29, Sub-Piece 211, Sub-Image 002 (1847) (£).

Printed sources

• Gelling, Margaret; Foxall, H.D.G.; Champion, W.; Cavill, Paul, introd.; Coates, Richard, gen. ed. & introd. The Place-Names of Shropshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. LXII/LXIII, LXX, LXXVI, LXXX, LXXXII, LXXXIX) ([s.l.], 1990; Nottingham, 1995-2012), vol. I, p. 35.

Maps

• 6" O.S. map Shropshire XLIII.SW (1884; surveyed 1881-82)
• 6" O.S. map Shropshire XLIII.SW (1903; rev. 1901) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Shropshire XLIII.SW (1903; rev. 1901)
• 6" O.S. map Shropshire XLIII.SW (1928; rev. 1925)
• 6" O.S. map Shropshire XLIII.SW (c. 1948; rev. 1938).

Background

• Wikipedia: Ironbridge
• Wikipedia: Madeley, Shropshire
• Ye Olde Robin Hood Inn; pub website.

Also see

• Public houses named after Robin Hood.

Notes

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  The Robin Hood Inn, Telford / From the pub's website.

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  The Robin Hood Inn, Telford / From the pub's website.

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  The Robin Hood Inn, Telford / From the pub's website.

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  The Robin Hood Inn, Telford / From the pub's website.

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  The Robin Hood Inn, Telford / Google Earth Street View.

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