Robin Hood's Well (Fountains Earth)

Locality
Coordinate	54.1135, -1.7754
Adm. div.	West Riding of Yorkshire
Vicinity	Near Gouthwaite Reservoir in Nidderdale
Type	Natural feature
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct?
First Record	1863

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Location of Robin Hood's Well.

Approximate indication of the site of Robin Hood's Well / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-25. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

Like Robin Hood's Park, Robin Hood's Well was located in the immediate vicinity of Sigsworth Grange, in pre-Reformation times a cattle lodge belonging to Fountains Abbey. Macquoid, Allusion 1883 below, gives an account of the well based on the 1863 Allusion but does not cite the verse quoted there or add anything of substance. Robin Hood's Well is not included in the 1838 tithe award for Fountains Earth.

Note that the verse quoted in the 1863 Allusion is said elsewhere to have been written by Walter Scott for use as an inscription for Robin Hood's Well at Fountains Abbey. "Doubergill" is now Dauber Gill. Template:PlaceNamesItemQuery

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311
• Northern Antiquarian: Holy Wells, Healing Springs & Spas.

Sources

• Grainge, William. Nidderdale; or, An Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive Sketch of the Valley of the Nidd, including Pateley Bridge, Bishopside, Dacre Banks, Hartwith, Brimham Rocks, Stonebeck Down, Ramsgill, Stonebeck up, Middlesmoor, Fountains Earth, Greenhow Hill, and the Stump Cross Caverns (Pateley Bridge and London, 1863), p. 185.
• Macquoid, Thomas; Macquoid, Katharine. About Yorkshire (London, 1894), p. 143.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CXVII.16 (1891; surveyed 1890) (Robin Hood's Well indicated as "Well")
• 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CXVII.16 (1909; rev. 1908) (georeferenced) (Robin Hood's Well indicated by "W")
• 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CXVII.16 (1909; rev. 1908) (Robin Hood's Well indicated by "W")
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire 117 (1853; surveyed 1849-50) (Robin Hood's Well not indicated)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CXVII (1896; surveyed 1890) (Robin Hood's Well indicated as "Well")
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CXVII.SE (1910; rev. 1907-1908) (georeferenced) (Robin Hood's Well indicated by "W")
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CXVII.SE (1910; surveyed 1907-1908) (Robin Hood's Well indicated by "W")
• 1:25,000 O.S. map SE16 (1952) at NLS. (Robin Hood's Well not indicated).

Background

• Platt, Colin. The Monastic Grange in Medieval England: a Reassessment (New York, 1969), pp. 74, 102 n. 1, 109.

Notes

 West Riding of Yorkshire place-names 

 Yorkshire place-names 

 Place-names