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=== Discussion ===
* {{:Ackerley, Fred G 1904b}}; suggests the hill was used as a fort in prehistoric times, possibly connected with the nearby "Castle Ring" site.


=== Brief mention ===
=== Brief mention ===
* {{:Sandred, Karl Inge 1989a}}, pt. III, p. xvii.
* {{:Sandred, Karl Inge 1989a}}, pt. III, p. xvii.


=== Background ===
* {{:Ackerley, Fred G 1904b}}; suggests the hill was used as a fort in prehistoric times, possibly connected with the nearby "Castle Ring" site.
=== Notes ===
=== Notes ===
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Revision as of 08:51, 23 August 2017

Locality
Coordinates 53.156982, -1.666
Adm. div. Derbyshire
Vicinity 1 km N of Elton
Type Natural feature
Interest Robin Hood name
Status Extant
First Record 1819
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Approximate location of Robin Hood's Stride
Robin Hood's Stride / Photo: J147.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-10-14. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-08-23.

Robin Hood's Stride is the name of a formation of broken gritstone rocks on Hartle Moor close to the village of Elton. There is a pinnacle at either end of the formation, that to the west being known as the Weasel pinnacle and that to the east as the Inaccessible pinnacle.[1] The formation is said to owe its name to the belief that the distance between the two pinnacles was equal to the length of Robin Hood's step or stride.[2] The alternative name of Mock Beggar's Hall is due to the general resemblance of the entire formation to a hall (manor house) with each pinnacle as a "chimney" at either end of the "building". The name Robin Hood's Stride is first recorded in an 1819 enclosure award.[3] As Kenneth Cameron notes in one of the English Place-Name Society volumes on Derbyshire, this and all other Robin Hood-related place-names in Derbyshire are first recorded at a late date.[4]

Robin Hood's Stride is a popular tourist attraction.

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Brief mention

Notes

  1. ↑ Wikipedia: Robin Hood's Stride.
  2. ↑ Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 297.
  3. ↑ Cameron, Kenneth. The Place-Names of Derbyshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXVII-XXIX) (Cambridge, 1959), vol. I, p. 109.
  4. ↑ Cameron, Kenneth. The Place-Names of Derbyshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXVII-XXIX) (Cambridge, 1959), pt. III (vol. XXIX), p. 760.

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  • Robin Hood's Stride / Photo: Andrew Hill.

  • Robin Hood's Stride / Photo: Tom Heyes.

  • Robin Hood's Stride / Photo: Andrew Hill.

  • Robin Hood's Stride / Photo: Andrew Hill.

  • Robin Hood's Stride / Photo: Andrew Hill.

  • Robin Hood's Stride / Photo: J147.

  • Robin Hood's Stride /Plate from unknown book.

  • Stone circle near Robin Hood's Stride / Plate from unknown book.

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    Robin Hood's Stride / Plate from unknown book.

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