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{{#display_map:{{#var:Coords}}|width=34%}}<div class="pnMapLegend">Pyon Hill, the easternmost of the Robin Hood's Butts in Pyon Canon.</div>
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[[File:{{#var:Pnimage}}|thumb|right|500px|Pyon Hill, the easternmost of the Robin Hood's Butts in Canon Pyon / [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2492681 Philip Pankhurst, 4 Jul. 2011, Creative Commons.]]]
[[File:{{#var:Pnimage}}|thumb|right|500px|Pyon Hill, the easternmost of the Robin Hood's Butts in Canon Pyon / [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2492681 Philip Pankhurst, 4 Jul. 2011, Creative Commons.]]]
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'Robin Hood's Butts' is the collective name of Pyon Hill and Butthouse Knap, two natural hills<ref>{{:Crawford, O G S 1924a}}; see p. 159.</ref> in Canon Pyon, Herefordshire. This place-name is first recorded in 1802.<!-- Ella Mary Leather 1904: "Two small cone-shaped hills near Canon Pyon are called 'Robin Hood's Butts.' The story goes that Robin Hood stood on one, and shot an arrow on to the top of the other."
'Robin Hood's Butts' is an alternative name of the Pyons, two conically shaped natural hills<ref>{{:Crawford, O G S 1924a}}; see p. 159.</ref> in Canon Pyon, Herefordshire. The name is first recorded in 1802.


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Pyon Hill, the larger and easternmost of the two hills, is located ''c.'' 150 m west of the A4110, while Butthouse Knap, its smaller cousin, is located ''c.'' 300 m WSW of it. They are situated ''c.'' 4.75 and ''c.'' 3.6 km southeast of Weobley. George Lipscomb in his ''Journey into South Wales'' (1802 Allusion below) notes that "Robin Hood's Butts, a little detached eminence, stands in the midst of a beautiful plain, called Pembridge bottom". I have found no other Robin Hood's Butts in Herefordshire to which this could refer, and in view of the other localities mentioned in the passage he most likely meant the Pyons in Cannon Pyon.


here are several stories explaining 
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the existence of the two conical     
shaped hills in Canon Pyon known as 
Pyon Hill and Butthouse Knapp and   
sometimes as 'Robin Hood's Butts'.They
were called by the latter name because
it was said Robin Hood could stand on
one and shoot an arrow into a tree on
top of the other.Other stories from 
the past mix Robin Hood and the Devil.
It is said that the Devil was so     
incensed by the piety of the people of
Hereford that he planned to bury or 
drown the city.He filled two sacks   
with earth from Dinmore Hill. In one 
version he was persuaded by a Holy man
that Hereford was a wicked city,and in
the other the cock crew so he emptied
his loads.In another story Little John
and Robin Hood jumped over Wormsley 
Hill from Brinsop and kicked off two 
pieces of hill so forming the Pyons. 
 
 
Watkins p. 171:
“ Robin Hood bet Little
John he could jump right over Wormesley Hill and clear the
Raven's Causeway, monastery and all. Robin jumped and
kicked a piece out of the hill with his heel: that's Butt-
house Knapp. Then Little John tried. He took a longer
run, and jumped better, but his foot caught the hill too,
and kicked a piece out that is now Canon Pyon Butt. You
can see the hole on the hill-side made by their heels now.
 
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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, 2018-02-13.

'Robin Hood's Butts' is an alternative name of the Pyons, two conically shaped natural hills[1] in Canon Pyon, Herefordshire. The name is first recorded in 1802.

Pyon Hill, the larger and easternmost of the two hills, is located c. 150 m west of the A4110, while Butthouse Knap, its smaller cousin, is located c. 300 m WSW of it. They are situated c. 4.75 and c. 3.6 km southeast of Weobley. George Lipscomb in his Journey into South Wales (1802 Allusion below) notes that "Robin Hood's Butts, a little detached eminence, stands in the midst of a beautiful plain, called Pembridge bottom". I have found no other Robin Hood's Butts in Herefordshire to which this could refer, and in view of the other localities mentioned in the passage he most likely meant the Pyons in Cannon Pyon.


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  1. ↑ 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.


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