Mantelpiece (Thoresby Hall)

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Approximate location of Thoresby Hall.

[[File:|thumb|500px|right|The fireplace / Brentnall, Margaret. 'Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest', [Unknown British travel and tourism magazine] (1963-12), pp. 15-17, 58; see p. 16.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-01. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-02-17.

Thoresby Hall, which was rebuilt in the period 1864-75, has a wooden mantelpiece in the library with carvings of a scene from Sherwood Forest, dominated by the Major Oak , and with statues of Robin Hood and Little John on either side of the fireplace.

Gazetteers

Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 303.

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