Robin Hood's Stoop (Offerton Moor)

Locality
Coordinates	53.3221, -1.6777
Adm. div.	Derbyshire
Vicinity	On E part of Offerton Moor, c. 500 m N of Highlow
Type	Monument
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	1883

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Robin Hood'S Stoop.

Robin Hood's Stoop (photo by Jim Bell, 16 April 2012).

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-09-14. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-09-02.

Robin Hood's Stoop on Offerton Moor is an old boundary stone which was perhaps originally part of a medieval wayside cross. According to later tradition Robin Hood shot an arrow from the Stoop all the way to Hathersage churchyard, about 2 km to the NE. Similar traditions relate to Whitby Abbey (North Riding of Yorkshire) and Limlow Hill (Cambridgeshire. The earliest source for this place-name that I know so far is the 6" O.S. map of the area published in 1883, but it seems likely it was included on earlier maps.

Gazetteers

• Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 297, s.n. 'Robin Hood's Stoop'.

Sources

• Cameron, Kenneth. The Place-Names of Derbyshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXVII-XXIX) (Cambridge, 1959), pt. I, p. 156; and see pt. I, p. lvii.

Maps

• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire X.SE (1883, surveyed 1879-80)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 99 (Hills) (1896)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 99 (Outline) (1896)
• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire X.SE (1899, surveyed 1896-97)
• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire X.SE (1923, surveyed 1919)

Also see

• Hathersage place-name cluster
• Whitby Abbey
• Limlow Hill.

Notes

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