1845 - White, William - General Directory of Town and Borough of Sheffield (1)

Allusion
Date	1845
Author	White, William
Title	General Directory of the Town and Borough of Sheffield
Mentions	Loxley Chase, Sheffield, haunt or birth-place of Robin Hood

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Approximate location of Loxley.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-08-18. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.

Allusion

There is an Unitarian Chapel at Stannington; and an old Independent Chapel at Loxley, near which is the romantic Cliffe Rocher, or Little Matlock, in the heart of Loxley Chase, now enclosed, and said to have been one of the haunts, if not the birth-place, of Robin Hood.

Lists

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-11.
• Outside scope of Sussex, Lucy, compil. 'References to Robin Hood up to 1600', in: Knight, Stephen. Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 262-88.

Editions

• White, William. General Directory of the Town and Borough of Sheffield, with Rotheram, Chesterfield, and all the Parishes, Townships, Villages, and Hamlets, within a Circuit of Twelve Miles round the Capital of Hallamshire (Sheffield, 1845); see p. 369.

Also see

• Loxley (Sheffield).

Notes