Little John's Cottage (Hathersage)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
The exact site of the cottage is not known, but it i believed to be a little east of the church.
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|The cottage on a postcard. / Private collection.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-01-02. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-01-02.
There is a local tradition in Hathersage that a cottage on the eastern side of the churhc was "Little John's Cottage". While other sources must and will be consulted, the following account printed on a postcard sums up the local story quite well:
A cottage which stood at the eastern side of the church well into the 19th century was always reputed to be the cottage in which Little John died. In 1847 its occupant was a woman of 70 named Jenny Shard who had the story from her father who had died 20 yearsa before at the age of 92, and in whose family it had been handed down.[1]
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.
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