Robin Hood Well (Cotehill)

Locality
Coordinate	54.854378, -2.801437
Adm. div.	Cumberland
Vicinity	Extending from c. 250 m ENE of Duncowfold Farm to c. 80 m WSW of River Eden, c. 300 m S. of road to Brackenbank
Type	Area
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct?
First Record	1840

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A plot of land here was known as 'Robin Hood Well' in 1840

Approximate indication of Robin Hood Well, Cotehill (click or tap image to enlarge in order to see marker) / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-02-05. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-04-22.

In the mid-19th century, a plot of land extending from c. 250 m east-northeast of Duncowfold Farm to c. 80 m west-soutwest of River Eden, c. 300 south of the road to Brackenbank, was known locally as 'Robin Hood Well', and thus evidently there was or had been a well there.

'Robin Hood Well' figures in the 1840 tithe award for the township of Cumwhinton and Coathill in the Parish of Wetheral, where its state of cultivation is listed as 'Arable', its area as 10 acres, 1 rood and 2 perches (41530.86 m²). The landowner was a John Armstrong, the occupier a George Nelson. The plot is listed under the "Hamlet of Coathill". Immediately north-northwest of 'Robin Hood Well', was a plot listed in the tithe award with the name 'Robin Hood'.

IRHB has found no indication that the name 'Robin Hood Well' is still in use locally. It is not clear where in the field the well was located.

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

• 1840 tithe award for the township of Cumwhinton and Coathill in the Parish of Wetheral, online at the Genealogist, Piece 07, sub-Piece 056, Image 396, #218 (£)
• accompanying map, online at the Genealogist, Piece 07, sub-Piece 056, sub-Image 001, #218 (£).

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Cumberland XXIV.15 (c. 1861; surveyed 1860)
• 6" O.S. map Cumberland XXIV.SE (1901; rev. 1899) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Cumberland XXIV.15 (1900; rev. 1899) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Cumberland XXIV.15 (1900; rev. 1899)
• 25" O.S. map Cumberland XXIV.15 (1925; rev. 1923)
• 6" O.S. map Cumberland XXIV (1868; surveyed 1861)
• 6" O.S. map Cumberland XXIV.SE (1901; rev. 1899)
• 6" O.S. map Cumberland XXIV.SE (1926; rev. 1923–24)
• 6" O.S. map Cumberland XXIV.SE (1951; rev. 1946–48).

Also see

• Cotehill place-name cluster
• Places named Robin Hood's Well.

Notes

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  Approximate indication of Robin Hood Well, Cotehill (click or tap image to enlarge in order to see marker) / Google Earth Street View.

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  Detail of MS tithe award. Plot 218 was known as 'Robin Hood Well' / © Crown Copyright Images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England. www.NationalArchives.gov.uk & www.TheGenealogist.co.uk.

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