Robin Hood Butts (Clapham)

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The locality named Robin Hood Butts was located somewhere within the township
of Bentham, which includes High Bentham and Low Bentham.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-09-05. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-06.

The place-name "Robin Hood Butts" figures in an entry in the parish register of Thornton-in-Lonsdale from 1738. A.H. Smith's lists it as a field-name. I have not been able to locate this field or place on O.S. maps of the area.

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.

Sources

• Chippindall, W. H., ed. The Parish Register of Thornton-in-Lonsdale, 1576-1812 (Yorkshire Parish Register Society, vol. 89) ([Leeds?], 1931). Not seen, but cf. A.H. Smith.
• Smith, A.H. The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXX-XXXVII) (Cambridge, 1961-63), pt. VI, p. 241.

Background

• Wikipedia: Bentham, North Yorkshire.

Also see

• Places named Robin Hood's Butts.

Notes