ROBIN HOOD, WEST YORKSHIRE

'Robin Hood' is a village in West Yorkshire, England, within the metropolitan district of Leeds, with Wakefield WF3 postcodes. It is part of the Ardsley and Robin Hood ward, and in the new Morley and Outwood parliamentary constituency. It is on the A61 between Leeds and Wakefield, close to Rothwell and Lofthouse.
It was in origin a coal-mining community, its mines at their peak employing several hundred underground workers for the firm J&J Charlesworth, but the last mine closed in the 1960s. There has been considerable residential development in recent years.
Robin Hood Athletic football club currently plays in Division One (second tier) of the West Yorkshire Association football league.
The village has no known connection with the legendary medieval folk hero Robin Hood, beyond the name.