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[[File:robin-friend-hugh-venables.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Robin Friend is most clearly seen from a distance / [http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/3176 Hugh Venables, Creative Commons, via Geograph.]]] | [[File:robin-friend-hugh-venables.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Robin Friend is most clearly seen from a distance / [http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/3176 Hugh Venables, Creative Commons, via Geograph.]]]<div class="no-img"> | ||
<p id="byline">By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-10. Revised by {{#realname:{{REVISIONUSER}}}}, {{REVISIONYEAR}}-{{REVISIONMONTH}}-{{REVISIONDAY2}}.</p | <p id="byline">By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-10. Revised by {{#realname:{{REVISIONUSER}}}}, {{REVISIONYEAR}}-{{REVISIONMONTH}}-{{REVISIONDAY2}}.</p>'Robin Friend' is the name of an extensive exposed layer of chalk on the foreshore just north of the golf course in Sheringham and northwest of the lifeboat station, "a resistant shoal which is exposed at low spring tides". On the coast near Robin Friend rare flint ammonites can sometimes be found.<ref>[http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1093861 Legend to Evelyn Simak's photo at Geograph.]</ref> Dobson & Taylor note that Robin Friend appears to have been associated with the Robin Hood tradition.<ref>{{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, p. 300, ''s.n.'' Robin Friend.</ref> | ||
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== Gazetteers == | |||
* {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, p. 300, ''s.n.'' Robin Friend. | * {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, p. 300, ''s.n.'' Robin Friend. | ||
== Maps == | |||
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/101580764#zoom=4&lat=3821&lon=6180&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Norfolk'' X.NE (1886; surveyed 1886)] | * [http://maps.nls.uk/view/101580764#zoom=4&lat=3821&lon=6180&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Norfolk'' X.NE (1886; surveyed 1886)] | ||
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/101580761#zoom=4&lat=3673&lon=6023&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Norfolk'' X.NE (1907; rev. 1906)] | * [http://maps.nls.uk/view/101580761#zoom=4&lat=3673&lon=6023&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Norfolk'' X.NE (1907; rev. 1906)] | ||
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* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/101580755#zoom=4&lat=3683&lon=6245&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Norfolk'' X.NE (1944; rev. 1938).] | * [http://maps.nls.uk/view/101580755#zoom=4&lat=3683&lon=6245&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Norfolk'' X.NE (1944; rev. 1938).] | ||
== Background == | |||
* [https://www.discoveringbritain.org/content/discoveringbritain/walk%20booklets/Sheringham%20walk%20-%20written%20guide.pdf Discovering Britain: Very flat, Norfolk] (PDF brochure) | * [https://www.discoveringbritain.org/content/discoveringbritain/walk%20booklets/Sheringham%20walk%20-%20written%20guide.pdf Discovering Britain: Very flat, Norfolk] (PDF brochure) | ||
* [http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/Research/Academic_Articles/Geology/Field_Guide_to_NE_Norfolk/Weybourne_Sheringham/index.htm Norfolk Museums: Weybourne – Sheringham: Geology.] | * [http://www.museums.norfolk.gov.uk/Research/Academic_Articles/Geology/Field_Guide_to_NE_Norfolk/Weybourne_Sheringham/index.htm Norfolk Museums: Weybourne – Sheringham: Geology.] | ||
== Notes == | |||
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File:robin-friend-hugh-venables.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Robin Friend is most clearly seen from a distance / [http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/3176 Hugh Venables, Creative Commons, via Geograph.] | File:robin-friend-hugh-venables.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Robin Friend is most clearly seen from a distance / [http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/3176 Hugh Venables, Creative Commons, via Geograph.] | ||
File:robin-friend-evelyn-simak.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Looking west toward Robin Friend. The flat darkish formation does not rise much above the exposed seabed / [http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/14840 Evelyn Simak, Creative Commons, via Geograph.] | File:robin-friend-evelyn-simak.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Looking west toward Robin Friend. The flat darkish formation does not rise much above the exposed seabed / [http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/14840 Evelyn Simak, Creative Commons, via Geograph.] | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:50, 7 January 2021
Locality | |
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Coordinate | 52.9478, 1.1917 |
Adm. div. | Norfolk |
Vicinity | On the beach immediately north of the golf course in Sheringham |
Type | Natural feature |
Interest | Local tradition |
Status | Extant |
First Record | 1886 |
Robin Friend.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-10. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.
'Robin Friend' is the name of an extensive exposed layer of chalk on the foreshore just north of the golf course in Sheringham and northwest of the lifeboat station, "a resistant shoal which is exposed at low spring tides". On the coast near Robin Friend rare flint ammonites can sometimes be found.[1] Dobson & Taylor note that Robin Friend appears to have been associated with the Robin Hood tradition.[2]Gazetteers
- Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 300, s.n. Robin Friend.
Maps
- 6" O.S. map Norfolk X.NE (1886; surveyed 1886)
- 6" O.S. map Norfolk X.NE (1907; rev. 1906)
- 6" O.S. map Norfolk X.NE (1907; rev. 1906) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Norfolk X.NE (1929; rev. 1926-27)
- 6" O.S. map Norfolk X.NE (1944; rev. 1938).
Background
- Discovering Britain: Very flat, Norfolk (PDF brochure)
- Norfolk Museums: Weybourne – Sheringham: Geology.
Notes
Image gallery
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Robin Friend is most clearly seen from a distance / Hugh Venables, Creative Commons, via Geograph.
Looking west toward Robin Friend. The flat darkish formation does not rise much above the exposed seabed / Evelyn Simak, Creative Commons, via Geograph.