1817 - Pitt, William - Topographical History of Staffordshire
| Allusion | |
|---|---|
| Date | 1817 |
| Author | Pitt, William |
| Title | Topographical History of Staffordshire: including its Agriculture, Mines and Manufactures; Statistical Tables; and every Species of Information connected with the Local History of the County. With a Succinct Account of the Rise and Progress of the Staffordshire Potteries |
| Mentions | Robin Hood's Butt (Wigginton) |
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-10-28. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.
Allusion
Wigginton is a hamlet in the parish of Tamworth, situated about two miles north-west of the Church. It is thus recorded in Domesday: "The King holds Wigetone, consisting of two hides. The arable land is six carucates. There are eight villans, and one servant, and one bordar, and eight burgesses in Tamworde. In all they have six carucates. Here is also a meadow, six furlongs in length and two in breadth. In the time of Edward the Confessor, it was valued at thirty shillings, but at the time of this survey £4."
South-west of Wigginton, near a piece of land called the Low Flat, is a remarkable eminence, which is called Robin Hood's Butt.[1]
Source notes
Italics as in printed source. The entire passage recurs in a directory of Staffordshire published the following year, 1818.[2]
IRHB comments
The exact location of Robin Hood's Butt is unknown. See Robin Hood's Butt (Wigginton).
Lists
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 315-19.
- Outside scope of Sussex, Lucy, compil. 'References to Robin Hood up to 1600', in: Knight, Stephen. Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 262-88.
Sources
- Pitt, William, compil. A Topographical History of Staffordshire: including its Agriculture, Mines and Manufactures; Statistical Tables; and every Species of Information connected with the Local History of the County. With a Succinct Account of the Rise and Progress of the Staffordshire Potteries (Newcastle-under-Lyme; Stafford; Lichfield; Wolverhampton; London, 1817), p. 143
- Parson, W., compil.; Bradshaw, T., compil. Staffordshire General & Commercial Directory, presenting an Alphabetical Arrangement of the Names and Residences of the Nobility, Gentry, Merchants, and Inhabitants in General; to which ias added, an Abbreviated History of the Principal Towns and Villages of the County (Manchester etc., [1818]), p. clxxi.
Background
Also see
Notes
- ↑ Pitt, William, compil. A Topographical History of Staffordshire: including its Agriculture, Mines and Manufactures; Statistical Tables; and every Species of Information connected with the Local History of the County. With a Succinct Account of the Rise and Progress of the Staffordshire Potteries (Newcastle-under-Lyme; Stafford; Lichfield; Wolverhampton; London, 1817), p. 143.
- ↑ Parson, W., compil.; Bradshaw, T., compil. Staffordshire General & Commercial Directory, presenting an Alphabetical Arrangement of the Names and Residences of the Nobility, Gentry, Merchants, and Inhabitants in General; to which ias added, an Abbreviated History of the Principal Towns and Villages of the County (Manchester etc., [1818]), p. clxxi.