Robinhood Pool (Hazel Grove)
Locality | |
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Coordinate | 53.368, -2.0942 |
Adm. div. | Cheshire |
Vicinity | On the north side of Buxton Road, immediately west of Norbury Hollow Road |
Type | Natural feature |
Interest | Robin Hood name |
Status | Defunct |
First Record | 1881 |
A.k.a. | Robin Hood Pool; Pond |
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-19. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-05-08.
The Robinhood Pool was located immediately east of the Robin Hood Inn in Hazel Grove, south of Stockport. The earliest known reference to the name 'Robinhood Pool' is an O.S. map from 1881.
The pool figures as 'Pond' tout court in the 1849 tithe award for Norbury Moor. The then township of Norbury, with Norbury Moor, is now part of Hazel Grove. The landowner was Thomas Legh, Esq., the occupiers Clayton & Brooke. The property covered an area of 2 roods and 25 perches (2655.75 m2).[1] There cannot be much doubt that the pool was named after the pub.
This is not the only pool located close to a Robin Hood pub. In Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire, across the street from a public house named the Robin Hood we find Robin Hood Dip, which contains a small island, the Giant's Grave.
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
- 1849 tithe award for the 'Township of Norbury in the Parish of Stockport' [actually Norbury Moor], online at the Genealogist, Piece 05, sub-piece 297, Image 008, #269 (£)
- accompanying map, online at the Genealogist, Piece 05, sub-piece 297, Sub-Image 001, #269 (£).
Printed sources
Maps
- 25" O.S. map Cheshire XX.9 (c. 1877; surveyed c. 1876). No copy in NLS.
- 25" O.S. map Cheshire XX.9 (1898; rev. 1896) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Cheshire XX.9 (1898; rev. 1896–97)
- 25" O.S. map Cheshire XX.9 (1938; rev. 1936)
- 25" O.S. map Cheshire XX.9 (1934; rev. 1907)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XX (1881; surveyed 1871–72)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XX.SW (1899; rev. 1896-97) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XX.SW (1899; rev. 1896-97)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XX.SW (1912; rev. 1907)
- 6" O.S. map Cheshire XX.SW (c. 1946; rev. 1938).
Also see
Notes
- ↑ 1849 tithe award for the 'Township of Norbury in the Parish of Stockport' [actually Norbury Moor], online at the Genealogist, Piece 05, sub-piece 297, Image 008, #269 (£); accompanying map, online at the Genealogist, Piece 05, sub-piece 297, Sub-Image 001, #269 (£). Also see 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), vol. I, p. 288.
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Detail of 1849 tithe map. Robin Hood Inn (#321); proprietor's garden (#318); Robinhood Pool (#269) (click or tap to enlarge) / © Crown Copyright Images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England. www.NationalArchives.gov.uk and www.TheGenealogist.co.uk.