Robin Hood's Penny Stone (Midgley Moor): Difference between revisions

Locality
Coordinate	53.751964, -1.974182
Adm. div.	West Riding of Yorkshire
Vicinity	On Midgley Moor
Type	Natural feature
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	1852

Latest revision as of 00:36, 6 January 2021

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Robin Hood's Penny Stome.

Robin Hood's Penny Stone on Midgley Moor (photograph: Richard Carter)

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-30. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

Robin Hood's Penny Stone is a large boulder located near the centre of Midgley Moor in the Pennines less than 2 km N of Midgley. It has often been confused with Robin Hood's Penny Stone near Wainstalls which is about 3 km away. The first source I have found to mention it is a 6" O.S. map published 1852 but surveyed 1847-49.^[1] This map also has the location of the then destroyed Robin Hood's Penny Stone (at Wainstalls) indicated.

Gazetteers

Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 309.

Sources

Maps

Brief mention

Turisto. 'Glacial Period Composition and Distribution of Erratic Boulders', Notes & Queries, vol. CLXXXIII (1942), pp. 170-71.

Notes

↑ 6" O.S. map Yorkshire Sheet 215 (1852, surveyed 1847-49) (at NLS).

Also see

West Riding of Yorkshire place-names

Yorkshire place-names

Place-names

[1] 6" O.S. map Yorkshire Sheet 215 (1852, surveyed 1847-49) (at NLS).

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 Robin Hood's Penny Stone is a large boulder located near the centre of Midgley Moor in the Pennines less than 2 km N of Midgley. It has often been confused with [[Robin Hood's Penny Stone (Wainstalls)|Robin Hood's Penny Stone near Wainstalls]] which is about 3 km away. The first source I have found to mention it is a 6" O.S. map published 1852 but surveyed 1847-49.<ref>[http://maps.nls.uk/view/102344950#zoom=6&lat=799&lon=5854&layers=BT 6" O.S. map Yorkshire Sheet 215 (1852, surveyed 1847-49) (at NLS).]</ref> This map also has  the location of [[Robin Hood's Penny Stone (Wainstalls)|the then destroyed Robin Hood's Penny Stone (at Wainstalls)]] indicated.
-=== Gazetteers ===
+== Gazetteers ==
 * {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, p. 309.
-=== Sources ===
+== Sources ==
 * [http://megalithix.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/robin-hoods-pennystone/ Northern Antiquarian: Robin Hood’s Penny Stone, Midgley Moor, West Yorkshire.]
 * {{:Smith, Albert Hugh 1961a}}, pt. III, pp. 129, 135.
-=== Maps ===
+== Maps ==
 * [http://maps.nls.uk/view/102344950#zoom=6&lat=799&lon=5854&layers=BT 6" O.S. map Yorkshire Sheet 215 (1852, surveyed 1847-49) (at NLS).]
 * [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100946942#zoom=5&lat=1924&lon=6290&layers=BT 6" O.S. map Yorkshire Sheet CCXV.SW (1894, surveyed 1892) (at NLS).]
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 * [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100946933#zoom=6&lat=1672&lon=6110&layers=BT 6" O.S. map Yorkshire Sheet CCXV.SW (1949, revised 1948) (at NLS).]
-=== Brief mention ===
+== Brief mention ==
 * {{:Turisto 1942a}}.
-=== Notes ===
+== Notes ==
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-* [[Robin Hood's Penny Stone (Wainstalls)]]
-* [[Places named Robin Hood's Penny Stone]].
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