Robin Hood Wood (Healaugh)

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Approximate location of Robin Hood Wood

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-19. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-06.

A.H. Smith lists Robin Hood Wood as a field name, his source being an unspecified 1752 Healaugh Estate Document at Leeds Reference Library.

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

• Smith, A.H. The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXX-XXXVII) (Cambridge, 1961-63), pt. IV, p. 241.

Also see

• Places named Robin Hood's Wood.

Notes