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, 2019-02-14.
A well on Jacksons' Moor above Whitwell was known as 'Robin Hood's Well' by 1831. It gave its name to the ravine in which it is situated.
Robin Hood's Well is first mentioned in John Roby's Traditions of Lancashire, Second Series, published in 1831 (see Allusions below). The earliest map evidence appears to be a 6" O.S. map published in 1851, based on a survey carried out 1844-48. Later maps show the tracks of an industrial railway running across the area in which the well is situated, but while the railway is long gone, the well is still there.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).