Robin Hood's Penny Stone (Midgley Moor)

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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, 2020-05-17.

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. 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

• Northern Antiquarian: Robin Hood’s Penny Stone, Midgley Moor, West Yorkshire.
• Smith, A.H. The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXX-XXXVII) (Cambridge, 1961-63), pt. III, pp. 129, 135.

Maps

• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire Sheet 215 (1852, surveyed 1847-49) (at NLS).
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire Sheet CCXV.SW (1894, surveyed 1892) (at NLS).
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire Sheet CCXV.SW (1908, revised 1905) (at NLS).
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire Sheet CCXV.SW (1934, revised 1934) (at NLS).
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire Sheet CCXV.SW (1949, revised 1948) (at NLS).

Brief mention

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

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