Robin Hood's Stone (Allerton, Liverpool) (1)

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The original site of Robin Hood's Stone.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Greenhill Road just after crossing Booker Avenue. Robin Hood's Stone stood somewhere around here 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, 2019-02-11.

Robin Hood's Stone in Allerton, Liverpool, now resides on the corner of Booker Avenue and Archerfield Road, but until 1928 its home was a plot of land on the corner of modern Greenwood and Greenhill Roads, less than a hundred meters north-east of its present location.

Before becoming detached, the stone belonged to the Calderstones complex, a group of neolithic sandstone boulders remaining from a dolmen. 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. At or near its base the stone has cup marks similar to those on the otehr Calderstones.Template:PnItemQry

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 315-19.

Sources

• PastScape: Robin Hoods Stone.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Lancashire CXIII.8 (1893; surveyed 1890)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire CXIII.8 (1908; rev. 1905) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire CXIII.8 (1927; rev. 1924-25)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire CXIII.8 (1939; rev. 1937).
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire CXIII (1850; surveyed 1846-48)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire CXIII.NE (1894; surveyed 1889-91)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire CXIII.NE (1909; rev. 1905) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire CXIII.NE (1909; rev. 1905)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire CXIII.NE (1928; rev. 1924-25)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire CXIII.NE (c. 1936; rev. 1924-25)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire CXIII.NE (1946; rev. 1938)

Discussion

• Journal of Antiquities: Robin Hood’s Stone, Allerton, Liverpool, Merseyside by 'sunbright57'.

Background

• Wikipedia: Calderstones Park.

Notes

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