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From north to south: Whitby Abbey with the Robin Hood-related localities and artefacts at Whitby Laithes. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-05-29. Revised by … There are no Robin Hood-related place-names within or in the immediate vicinity of the ruins of Whitby Abbey, but a local tale connects the abbey with a cluster of localities that have Robin Hood-related names, just west of Whitby Laithes and c. 2.35 km SE of Whitby. Here are found Robin Hood's Close and to its immediate south Little John's Close. As early as 1540 a stone called Robin Hood's Stone stood in Robin Hood's Close. Little John's Stone may well have stood in Little John's Close already at that time, but we have no direct evidence of this. According to … who gave an interesting account of these stones and fields in his History of Whitby (1779), Charlton, Lionel 1779a, pp. 146-47. at some point in the early 18th century the two stones were moved to the edge of their respective fields, …