Robin Hood's Well (Halton Gill)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Robin Hood's Well.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-07-26. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-12-22.
Robin Hood's Well in Halton Gill, located high on the Pennines, is noted without any source reference in the English Place-Name Society's volume on the West Riding of Yorkshire.[1] The earliest occurrence of the name known to IRHB is a 6" O.S. map published in 1851.[2]
Gazetteers
Sources
- Smith, A.H. The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXX-XXXVII) (Cambridge, 1961-63), vol. VI (1961), p. 123.
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