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Dawkins, William Boyd; Mello, J. M. ' Further Discoveries in the Cresswell Caves ', Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, vol. 35 ( 1879 ), pp. 724-35 . Downloads ⁃ PDF etc.. Bibliographical sources ⁃ Geological Society of London.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-04-25. Revised by … Robin Hood's Cave is the name of one of the largest caves at Creswell Crags, slightly south-east of Creswell village, on the north side of Crags Road. The cave is located c. 530 m east-northeast of Mansfield Road (A616). It is not clear when the name 'Robin Hood's Cave' came into use, but it occurs in a literary allusion dating from 1841 and subsequently on O.S. maps of the area. The Crags Creswell Crags are a low, southwest–northeast-oriented gorge cutting through a Lower Permian limestone ridge that extends from southern Yorkshire to northern Leicestershire. The Crags straddle the present border between Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, the northern ridge being in Derbyshire, the southern in Nottinghamshire. Individually named caves at the Crags include the Pin Hole Cave, Robin Hood's Cave, the Church Hole, the Arch, the Dog Hole. There are a number of rock-shelters such as the West End Shelters, the Holly Shelter, …