Rough Low Tor (Buxton)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
The locality William Marriott called 'Rough Low Tor' is probably located in this general area.
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|The Old Road from Butxon to Whaley Bridge. Rough Low Tor seems to have been somwehere to the east of it / Google Earth Street View.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-21. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-21.
According to William Marriott's Antiquities of Lyme and its Vicinity, published 1810 (see Allusions below), there was a local tradition that Robin Hood had shot an arrow from Chinley Churn to a locality named 'Rough Low Tor'. The latter place-name is no longer current, but it would have referred to a hill somewhere north of Buxton and south of Combs in the High Peak. 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. 293-311.
Sources
- Marriott, William. The Antiquities of Lyme and its Vicinity (Stockport, 1810), pp. 9-10, 18-27, 46-47, 288.
Maps
- 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XIV.SE (1882; surveyed 1878-79)
- 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XIV.SE (1899; rev. 1897) (georeferenced)]
- 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XIV.SE (1899; rev. 1897)
- 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XIV (1923; rev. 1897-1919)
- 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XIV.SE (1923; rev. 1919)
- 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XIV.SE (c. 1946; rev. 1938)
- 25" O.S. map Derbyshire XIV.12 (c. 1879; surveyed c. 1878). No Copy in NLS
- 25" O.S. map Derbyshire XIV.12 (1898; rev. 1897) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Derbyshire XIV.12 (1898; rev. 1897)
- 25" O.S. map Derbyshire XIV.12 (1922; rev. 1919).
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