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Sayles Plantation, identified by modern historians with the Sayles of the Gest by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-30. Revised by … Photograph courtesy Richard Hawlor; includes information and materials from David Hepworth. In the Gest of Robyn Hode, a tale which has the outlaws in part based in Barnsdale, Robin Hood sends Little John, Scathlock and Much the Miller's Son to a place called 'the Sayles' to look out for a traveller they can 'invite' to dinner with Robin Hood … from free for a rich guest. This place-name reference is significant as the Sayles are an obscure locality unlikley to have been known much outside the … West Riding well. From the 1970s on several historians have identified this Sayles with a Sayles Plantation near Wentbridge. Though at first sight plausible, this is demonstrably impossible. The locality referred to in the poem …