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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, 2017-12-04.

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.

Discussion

Ackerley, Fred G. 'Robin Hood's Stride', Notes & Queries, Series 10, vol. II (1904), p. 246; suggests the hill was used as a fort in prehistoric times, possibly connected with the nearby "Castle Ring" site.

Brief mention

Sandred Karl Inge; Lindström, Bengt, Cornford, B.; Rutledge, P.; Schram, O.K., compil. The Place-Names of Norfolk (English Place-Name Society, vols. LXI, LXXI, LXXIX) (Nottingham, 1989-2002), pt. III, p. xvii.

Notes

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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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[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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