Robin Hood's Butts (Canon Pyon) (1)

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Pyon Hill, the easternmost of the Robin Hood's Butts in Pyon Canon.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Pyon Hill, the easternmost of the Robin Hood's Butts in Canon Pyon / Philip Pankhurst, 4 Jul. 2011, Creative Commons.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-02-12. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-02-12.

'Robin Hood's Butts' is the collective name of Pyon Hill and Butthouse Knap, two natural hills in Canon Pyon, Herefordshire. This place-name is first recorded in 1802.

Gazetteers

• Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 298, s.n. Robin Hoods' Butts.

Sources

• Crawford, O. G. S. 'Place-Names and Archaeology', chapter VIII in: Mawer, A.; Stenton, F.M. Introduction to the Survey of English Place-Names (English Place-Name Society, vol. I, pt. 1). (Cambridge, 1924), pp. 143-64; see p. 159
• Smith, A.H. English Place-Name Elements. Reprinted (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXV-XXVI) (Cambridge, 1970), pt. I, p. 165 s.n. butt², b.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Herefordshre XXVI.1 (1887; rev. 1886)
• 25" O.S. map Herefordshre XXVI.5 (1904; rev. 1902)
• 25" O.S. map Herefordshre XXVI.5 (1904; rev. 1902) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Herefordshire XXVI.NW 1886; surveyed 1886)
• 6" O.S. map Herefordshire XXVI.NW (1905; rev. 1902)
• 6" O.S. map Herefordshire XXVI.NW (1905; rev. 1902) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Herefordshire XXVI.NW (1952; rev. 1945)
• 1" O.S. map Hereford (Hills), Sheet 128 (1898; rev. 1897) (georeferenced)
• 1" O.S. map Hereford (Outline), Sheet 128 (1898; rev. 1897) (georeferenced)
• O.S. 1:25,000 SO44 (1956; surveyed 1945) (georeferenced)
• O.S. 1" Hereford (7th Ser.) (1960; surveyed 1944-60) (georeferenced)
• 1:1 million-1:10K O.S. SO 454495 (1900s) (georeferenced)
• 1:1m to 1:63K (1920s–1940s) SO439490 (georeferenced)
• Bartholomew 1/2" Hereford Sheet 23 (1902) (georeferenced)
• Bartholomew 1/2" Wye Valley Sheet 13 (1944) (georeferenced)

Discussion

• Leather, Ella Mary. 'Folk-Lore of the Shire', in: Reade, Compton, ed. Memorials of Old Herefordshire (London and Derby, 1904), pp. 148-66; see p. 163
• Leather, Ella Mary. The Folk-Lore of Herefordshire, collected from Oral and Printed Sources (Hereford; London, 1912), p. ?
• Watkins, Alfred. The Old Straight Track: its Mounds, Beacons, Moats, Sites, and Mark Stones. 4th ed. (London, 1948), pp. 171, 178 (also editions of 1925, 1933, 1946, 1970, 1974, 1975, 1977, and 2014).

Background

• Wikipedia: Canon Pyon.

Notes

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  Pyon Hill, the easternmost of the Robin Hood's Butts in Canon Pyon / Philip Pankhurst, 4 Jul. 2011, Creative Commons.

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  Pyon Hill / Jonathan Billinger, 8 Jan. 2016

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  Pyon Hill / Adam Buckley, 7 Aug. 2005

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  Pyon Hill / Jonathan Billinger, 8 Jan. 2016

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  Pyon Hill / Richard Webb, 1 Jul. 2014

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  Pyon Hill / Google Earth Street View.

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