Robin Hood's Cave (Kirkby in Ashfield)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Robin Hood's Chair.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-10-04. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-12.
Now said to be below ground,[1] Robin Hood's Cave was (is) located by a path immediately east of Derby Road, some 1.5 km SSE of central Kirkby in Ashfield. About 700 m NE of the site of the cave are found Robin Hood's Hills and Robin Hood's Chair, while the Robin Hood, a public house, could once be frequented about 600 m S of the Cave, just south of Annesley at what was then a crossroads but is now the corner of Derby Road and Forest Road. The earliest source for this place-name would seem to be an O.S. map from c. 1825.[2]
Gazetteers
- Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 302, s.n. 'Robin Hood's Cave' [II] and 'Robin Hood's Hills'
- Gover, J.E.B.; Mawer, Allen; Stenton, F.M. The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire (English Place-Name Society, vol. XVII) (Cambridge, 1940), pp. 64, 294.
Maps
- 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVII.SE (1886; surveyed 1877-78)
- 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVII.SE (1900; rev. 1898)
- 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVII.SE (1900; rev. 1898) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVII.SE (1921; rev. 1913-14)
- 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVII.SE (c. 1949; rev. 1938)
- 25" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVII.15 (1900; rev. 1898) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVII.15 (1879; surveyed 1877)
- 25" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVII.15 (1900; rev. 1898)
- 25" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVII.15 (c. 1917; rev. c. 1914). No Copy in NLS
- 25" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVII.15 (1945; rev. 1938)
- 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XXXVI (1921; rev. 1913-14).
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