Hathersage Churchyard

Locality
Coordinate	53.333281, -1.650262
Adm. div.	Derbyshire
Vicinity	Hathersage
Type	Area
Interest	Local tradition
Status	Extant?
First Record

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Hathersage Churchyard.

Hathersage Churchyard / Gogle Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-03-17. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.

Robin Hood is or was alleged to have shot an arrow from Robin Hood's Stoop on Offerton Moor which landed in the graveyard of St Michael and All Angels' Church in Hathersage, abot 2 km north-east of the Stoop.

Gazetteers

• Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976); no separate entry, but see p. 297, s.n. 'Robin Hood's Stoop'.

Sources

• Cameron, Kenneth. The Place-Names of Derbyshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXVII-XXIX) (Cambridge, 1959), pt. I, p. 156; and see pt. I, p. lvii.

Background

• Wikipedia: St John the Baptist's Church, Bamford
• Wikipedia: St Michael and All Angels' Church, Hathersage.

Also see

• Hathersage place-name cluster
• Hathersage Church place-name cluster
• Places connected by bowshot.

Notes

 Derbyshire place-names 

 Place-names