Robin Hood's Well (Whitworth)
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|The red arrow indicates the approximate location of Robin Hood's Well / Google Earth Street View.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-12. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-12.
A well on Jacksons' Moor above Whitwell was known as 'Robin Hood's Well' by the mid-19th century. It gave its name to the ravine in which it was situated.
Robin Hood's Well is first recorded on a 6" O.S. map published in 1851, based on a survey carried out 1844-48. There do not appear to be any modern references to it on the web. It is noted on a recent list of "non-designated heritage assets" in the area,[1] but the only source cited there is the 1851 map. Later maps show the tracks of a now long gone industrial railway crossing the areay in which the well is or was situated. It is conceivable that the well may have disappeared when the tracks were laid.Template:PnItemQry
Gazetteers
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 315-19.
Maps
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXX.3 (1893; surveyed 1891)
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXX.3 (1910; rev. 1908) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXX.3 (1910; rev. 1908)
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXX.3 (1929; rev. 1928)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXX (1851; surveyed 1844-48)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXX.NE (1894; surveyed 1891)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXX.NE (1912; rev. 1909) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXX.NE (1912; rev. 1909)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXX.NE (1931; rev. 1928)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXX.NE (1947; rev. 1938).