Robin Hood's Stone (Allerton, Liverpool) (1): Difference between revisions

Locality
Coordinate	53.3715, -2.9037
Adm. div.	Lancashire
Vicinity	S side of present Greenwood Road, c. 30 m NE of present Archerfield Road
Type	Monument
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct
First Record	1850

Latest revision as of 13:51, 7 January 2021

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The original site of Robin Hood's Stone.

Here on the south side of the present Greenwood Road, c. 30 m NE of present Archerfield Road, Robin Hood's Stone stood until August 1928, when it was moved to its present location / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-11. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.

Robin Hood's Stone in Allerton, Liverpool, now resides on the corner of Booker Avenue and Archerfield Road, but until 1928 its home was at what is now the south side of Greenwood Road, c. 30 m NE of present Archerfield Road.

The stone is roughly rectangular and approximtely 2 metres high by 90 cm wide by 40 cm thick. On what is now its south-east it has six or seven deep grooves where, according to local legend, Robin Hood and his men sharpened their arrows. Before becoming detached, the stone belonged to the Calderstones complex, a group of neolithic sandstone boulders remaining from a dolmen. At or near its base the stone has cup marks similar to those on the other Calderstones.^[1] With development encroaching on its habitat – a field locally known as the Stone Hey, where it stood already by the mid-19th century – the stone was moved to the corner of Booker Avenue and Archerfield Road in August of 1928.^[2] When the stone was moved to its present location, a bronze plaque with the following inscription was added:

This Monolith known as Robin Hood's Stone, stood in a field named the Stone Hey at a spot 280 feet bearing North from its present position, to which it was moved in August 1928. The arrow below indicates the direction of the original site. This side of the stone formerly faced South.^[3]

Gazetteers

Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-11.

Sources

Anonymous. 'Report of Local Secretary for Lancaster', Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, vol. LXXX (1928), pp. 224-27; see pp. 226-27: 'Robin Hood's Stone', an interesting account of the removal of the stone to its present location
Historic England: Robin Hood's Stone at the junction of Archerfield Road and Booker Avenue
PastScape: Robin Hoods Stone.

Maps

Discussion

Background

Wikipedia: Calderstones Park.

Also see

Notes

↑ Wikipedia: Calderstones Park. PastScape: Robin Hoods Stone has 'Bronze Age'. Is this a mistake?
↑ PastScape: Robin Hoods Stone; and see 1850 map in list below.
↑ Anonymous. 'Report of Local Secretary for Lancaster', Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, vol. LXXX (1928), pp. 224-27; see p. 227.

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Here on the S side of present Greenwood Road, c. 30 m NE of present Archerfield Road, Robin Hood's Stone stood until 1928, when it was moved to its current location / Google Earth Street View.
Since 1928 Robin Hood's Stone has stood sentinel on the junction of Booker Avenue and Archerfield Road / Google Earth Street View.
Robin Hood's Stone at its current location / Wikimedia Commons via Journal of Antiquities.
Plaque at Robin Hood's Stone / 'Rept0n1x', 4 Jun. 2012, MediaWiki Commons.

Lancashire place-names

Place-names

[1] Wikipedia: Calderstones Park. PastScape: Robin Hoods Stone has 'Bronze Age'. Is this a mistake?

[2] PastScape: Robin Hoods Stone; and see 1850 map in list below.

[3] Anonymous. 'Report of Local Secretary for Lancaster', Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, vol. LXXX (1928), pp. 224-27; see p. 227.

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-[[File:{{#var:Pnimage}}|thumb|right|500px|Greenhill Road just after crossing Booker Avenue. Robin Hood's Stone stood here until 1924/25 if not later but had moved to its present location by 1937 / Google Earth Street View.]]
+[[File:{{#var:Image}}|thumb|right|500px|Here on the south side of the present Greenwood Road, ''c.'' 30 m NE of present Archerfield Road, Robin Hood's Stone stood until August 1928, when it was moved to its present location / Google Earth Street View.]]<div class="no-img">
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+<p id="byline">By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-11. Revised by {{#realname:{{REVISIONUSER}}}}, {{REVISIONYEAR}}-{{REVISIONMONTH}}-{{REVISIONDAY2}}.</p>
-Robin Hood's Stone in Allerton, Liverpool, now resides on the corner of Booker Avenue and Archerfield Road, but until 1924/25 and perhaps as late as 1936 its home was a rather large plot of land on the corner of Greenwood and Greenhill Roads, less than a hundred meters north-east of its present location.
+Robin Hood's Stone in Allerton, Liverpool, now resides on the corner of Booker Avenue and Archerfield Road, but until 1928 its home was at what is now the south side of Greenwood Road, c. 30 m NE of present Archerfield Road.
-According to a local blogger, this red sandstone monolith is ''c.'' 2.4 metres high and about 90 cm in width. He further notes that
+The stone is roughly rectangular and approximtely 2 metres high by 90 cm wide by 40 cm thick. On what is now its south-east it has six or seven deep grooves where, according to local legend, Robin Hood and his men sharpened their arrows. Before becoming detached, the stone belonged to the Calderstones complex, a group of neolithic sandstone boulders remaining from a dolmen. At or near its base the stone has cup marks similar to those on the other Calderstones.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calderstones_Park#The_Calderstones Wikipedia: Calderstones Park.] [https://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=67205 PastScape: Robin Hoods Stone] has 'Bronze Age'. Is this a mistake?</ref> With development encroaching on its habitat &ndash; a field locally known as the Stone Hey, where it stood already by the mid-19th century &ndash; the stone was moved to the corner of Booker Avenue and Archerfield Road in August of 1928.<ref>[https://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=67205 PastScape: Robin Hoods Stone;] and see 1850 map in list below.</ref> When the stone was moved to its present location, a bronze plaque with the following inscription was added:
-<div class="plainquote">It was apparently dug-up in 1928 in a field in the Forty Pits area – where it then stood for some considerable time until a new housing estate was built, and, then it was moved (once gain) to its present position on Brooker Avenue, just opposite Archerfield Road, at the beginning of the 1970s.<ref>[https://thejournalofantiquities.com/2015/10/20/robin-hoods-stone-allerton-liverpool-merseyside Journal of Antiquities: Robin Hood’s Stone, Allerton, Liverpool, Merseyside] by 'sunbright57'.</ref></div>
+<div class="plainquote">This Monolith known as Robin Hood's Stone, stood in a field named the Stone Hey at a spot 280 feet bearing North from its present position, to which it was moved in August 1928. The arrow below indicates the direction of  the original site. This side of the stone formerly faced South.<ref>{{:Anonymous 1928a}}; see p. 227.</ref></div>{{PlaceNamesItemAllusionsAndRecords}}
-The stone does now sit on the corner of Booker &ndash; not Brooker &ndash; Avenue and Archerfield Road, but there is nothing remotely 1978-ish about the railing around it, and in fact a 25" O.S. map published in 1939 and based on a survey carried out in 1937 already has the stone at its present address (see maps below). On the other hand, a 6" O.S. map published ''c.'' 1936 and based on a revision of an older map completed in 1925 still has it on the corner of Greenwood and Greenhill Roads. The stone, therefore, must have been moved a some point between 1925 and 1937. It is labelled (and usually also indicated) at its old location on O.S. maps of the area from 1850 to ''c.'' 1936, It therefore almost certainly was not moved during this period and can hardly have been "dug-up in 1928". Had the stone disappeared from view, through either being covered in earth or moved elsewhere, the maps would typically have labelled the spot "Site of Robin Hood's Stone", but this is never the case.
+== Gazetteers ==
+* Not included in {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, pp. 293-11.
+== Sources ==
+* {{:Anonymous 1928a}}; see pp. 226-27: 'Robin Hood's Stone', an interesting account of the removal of the stone to its present location
+* [https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1020984 Historic England: Robin Hood's Stone at the junction of Archerfield Road and Booker Avenue]
+* [https://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=67205 PastScape: Robin Hoods Stone.]
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-== Gazetteers ==
-* Not included in {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, pp. 315-19.
-<!--== Sources ==-->
 == Maps ==
 * [https://maps.nls.uk/view/126523997#zoom=4&lat=4735&lon=10155&layers=BT 25" O.S. map ''Lancashire'' CXIII.8 (1893; surveyed 1890)]
-* [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=53.3718&lon=-2.9039&layers=168&b=5 25" O.S. map ''Lancashire'' CXIII.8 (1908; rev. 1905)] (georeferenced)]
+* [https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=53.3718&lon=-2.9039&layers=168&b=5 25" O.S. map ''Lancashire'' CXIII.8 (1908; rev. 1905)] (georeferenced)
 * [https://maps.nls.uk/view/126524003#zoom=5&lat=4954&lon=10389&layers=BT 25" O.S. map ''Lancashire'' CXIII.8 (1927; rev. 1924-25)]
 * [https://maps.nls.uk/view/126524006#zoom=4&lat=4426&lon=9892&layers=BT 25" O.S. map ''Lancashire'' CXIII.8 (1939; rev. 1937).]
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 * [https://maps.nls.uk/view/101104289#zoom=4&lat=2281&lon=6615&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Lancashire'' CXIII.NE (1928; rev. 1924-25)]
 * [https://maps.nls.uk/view/102339573#zoom=4&lat=2238&lon=6713&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Lancashire'' CXIII.NE (''c.'' 1936; rev. 1924-25)]
-* [https://maps.nls.uk/view/101104286#zoom=4&lat=2160&lon=6555&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Lancashire'' CXIII.NE (1946; rev. 1938)]
+* [https://maps.nls.uk/view/101104286#zoom=4&lat=2160&lon=6555&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Lancashire'' CXIII.NE (1946; rev. 1938).]
 == Discussion ==
-* [https://thejournalofantiquities.com/2015/10/20/robin-hoods-stone-allerton-liverpool-merseyside Journal of Antiquities: Robin Hood’s Stone, Allerton, Liverpool, Merseyside] by 'sunbright57'.
+* [https://historic-liverpool.co.uk/robin-hoods-stone/ Historic Liverpool: Robin Hood’s Stone]
-<!--== Background ==
+* [https://thejournalofantiquities.com/2015/10/20/robin-hoods-stone-allerton-liverpool-merseyside Journal of Antiquities: Robin Hood’s Stone, Allerton, Liverpool, Merseyside] by 'sunbright57'
-== Brief mention ==-->
+* [https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=8435 The Megalithic Portal: Robin Hood's Stone]
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+* [http://www.roydenhistory.co.uk/mrlhp/local/calders/calders.htm Mike Royden's Local History Pages: The Calderstones.]
+== Background ==
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calderstones_Park#The_Calderstones Wikipedia: Calderstones Park.]
+<!--== Brief mention ==-->
+{{PlaceNamesItemAlsoSee}}
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+File:robin-hoods-stone-allerton-liverpool-google-earth-street-view-1.jpg|Here on the S side of present Greenwood Road, ''c.'' 30 m NE of present Archerfield Road, Robin Hood's Stone stood until 1928, when it was moved to its current location / Google Earth Street View.
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+File:robin-hoods-stone-allerton-liverpool-google-earth-street-view-2.jpg|Since 1928 Robin Hood's Stone has stood sentinel on the junction of Booker Avenue and Archerfield Road / Google Earth Street View.
+File:robin_hoods_stone_liverpool-photo-by-rept0n1x-for-wikimedia-commons.jpg|Robin Hood's Stone at its current location / Wikimedia Commons via [https://thejournalofantiquities.com/2015/10/20/robin-hoods-stone-allerton-liverpool-merseyside/ Journal of Antiquities.]
+File:Robin_Hood's_Stone_plaque,_Liverpool.jpg|Plaque at Robin Hood's Stone / [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robin_Hood%27s_Stone_plaque,_Liverpool.JPG 'Rept0n1x', 4 Jun. 2012, MediaWiki Commons.]
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