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* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100945508#zoom=4&lat=5184&lon=2668&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CLXVI.NW (1896, surveyed 1892-93)] | * [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100945508#zoom=4&lat=5184&lon=2668&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CLXVI.NW (1896, surveyed 1892-93)] |
Revision as of 14:34, 12 July 2018
Location of Gisburn.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-07-11. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-12.
Gisburn, formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire, now in Lancashire, is perhaps the most likely candidate for being the hometown of Guy of Gisborne of the ballad Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne (see Evidence below). The place-name is first mentioned, as 'Ghiseburne', in Domesday Book (1086). The name probably means 'Gushing stream', referring to a stream that has its origin in springs above the village.[1] Nearby is Gisburn Forest.[2]
Quotations
[c. 1650:]
I dwell by dale and downe quoth Guye
And I have done many a curst turne
And he that calles me by my right name
Calles me Guye of good Gysborne[3]
I dwell by dale and downe quoth Guye
And I have done many a curst turne
And he that calles me by my right name
Calles me Guye of good Gysborne[3]
Gazetteers
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.
Sources
- Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 144 (st. 34).
- Smith, A.H. The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXX-XXXVII) (Cambridge, 1961-63), pt. VI, pp. 164-65.
Maps
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire 166 (1853, surveyed 1849-50)
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CLXVI.NW (1896, surveyed 1892-93)
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CLXVI.SW (1896, surveyed 1892-93)
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CLXVI.NW (1909, rev. 1907)
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CLXVI.SW (1909, rev. 1907)
Background
- Smith, A.H. The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXX-XXXVII) (Cambridge, 1961-63), pt. VI, p. 167.
- Wikipedia: Gisburn.
Notes
- ↑ Smith, A.H. The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXX-XXXVII) (Cambridge, 1961-63), pt. VI, pp. 164-65.
- ↑ Smith, A.H. op. cit., pt. VI, p. 167.
- ↑ Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne, st. 34 (Dobson & Taylor, p. 144).