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The Dipping Stone, Whaley Moor. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-21. Revised by … In the early 19th … in the High Peak to the effect that Robin Hood had shot an arrow from the BowStones near Lyme Handley to the Dipping Stone at Whaley Moor, and from there to Chinley Churn. Wiliam Marriott discusses these traditions at length in his Antiquities of Lyme and its Vicinity, published in 1810 (see Allusions below). He notes that the folk names of 'Robin Hood's Picking Stone' and 'Robin Hood's Stone' were used of several Stone monuments, but it is not entirely clear if the Dipping Stone was one of these. Situated on the crest of a shallow ridge below the southern end of Whaley Moor, just off a footpath leading from Whaley Lane to Hawkshurt Head, the Dipping Stone is the rectangular, c. 120 cm long and c. 50 to 80 cm wide base Stone of a pair of Saxon crosses, dated no later than the 10th century. Similar base Stones are part of the BowStones, Robin …

Chinley Churn By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-21. Revised by … According to an early 19th century tradition, Robin Hood shot an arrow from the Dipping Stone at Whaley Moor to Chinley Churn. William Marriott's account in his Antiquities of Lyme and its Vicinity, published in 1810 (see Allusions), is the only known source for this tradition. Unfortunately he was more interested in developing elaborate hypotheses about the origins of various Stone monuments in Lyme Handley and its vicinity than in giving a detailed account … On Chinley he says among other things:  Tradition states, that other Stones [than the BowStones at Whaley Moor] exist upon Chinley, a high hill opposite Whalley Moor, on the other side of the river Goyt, forming the boundary of Derbyshire, in Taylor's Pieces. But, upon searching the ground, which is covered with infinite Stones, the lusi naturæ, none appeared which might safely …