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Robin Hood's Bed. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-09-18. Revised by … Robin Hood's Bed is a "name applied to whole or part of the prominent ridge of Blackstone Edge in the Pennines". Neolithic flints have been found at the site. Dobson, … on this locality, what suggested the name is a rock which "overlooks the very Edge of the ridge, detached from the main section, with a large and very curious nature-worn ‘Bed’ on its very crown" which is c. 125 cm wide and c. 215 cm long. This "Bed" has a roughly horseshoe-shaped ridge. Blackstone Edge forms a border between Lancashire and Yorkshire. The earliest reference for … is John Watson's History and Antiquities of Halifax, published in 1775 (see Allusions below). "Robin Hood's Bed" is indicated twice on …

Robin Hood's Quoit a.k.a. Man Stone or Manstone. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-09-19. Revised by … 'Robin Hood's Quoit' is the name of a boulder in the Whitworth area (Lancashire). It is … Roby in the Second Series of his Lancashire Traditions published in 1831 (see Allusions below), Also see Farrer, William 1906a, vol. V, p. 206; volume publ. 1911. Robin Hood threw this boulder all the way from his Bed on Blackstone Edge, located c. 8 km to the west. Historically the quoit marked the boundary … and perhaps more common name for it is 'Man Stone' or 'Manstone'. The name 'Robin Hood's Quoit' is no doubt still current. It is noted, for instance, in an undated, probably pre-1960, clipping from the Manchester Guardian. Reproduced at Phineas Parkhurst Quimby Ressource …