Robin's Tump (Cardington)

Locality
Coordinate	52.555, -2.7631
Adm. div.	Shropshire
Vicinity	750 m WNW of Willstone
Type	Prehistoric site
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	1883

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Robin's Tump.

The bulge at the centre is Robin's Tump / [Bing Map at National Library of Scotland.]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-06-06. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

Robin's Tump is a small bowl barrow in the parish of Cardington (Shropshire), c. 750 m WNW of the hamlet of Willstone. Margaret Gelling, in the English Place-Name Society's first volume on Shropshire, explains the name as "probably an allusion to Robin Hood, who appears fairly frequently in Sa[lop] minor names".

The Tump is "situated on the top of a west to east spur below the summit of Caer Caradoc Hill",. This small, relatively well-preserved Bronze Age barrow is circular in plan, has a diameter of c. 9 m and a maximum height of c. 80 cm.

The earliest references I have found for this place-name so far are the 25" and 6" O.S. maps of the area published in 1883 (see Maps section below).

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.

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), pt. I, p. 127
• Historic England: Bowl barrow on Robin's Tump, 600m south west of Hill House.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Shropshire LVI.2(1883; surveyed 1882)
• 25" O.S. map Shropshire LVI.2(1903; rev. 1901)
• 25" O.S. map Shropshire LVI.2(1927; rev. 1925)
• 6" O.S. map Shropshire LVI.NW (1883; surveyed 1882)
• 6" O.S. map Shropshire LVI.NW (1903; rev. 1901)
• 6" O.S. map Shropshire LVI.NW (1903; rev. 1901) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Shropshire LVI.NW (1928; rev. 1925)
• 6" O.S. map Shropshire LVI.NW (c. 1953; rev. 1949).

Also see

• Places named Robin Hood's Tump.

Notes

 Shropshire place-names

 Place-names