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- North to south: Priestley Green, Rastrick, Fixby. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2015-09-03. Revised by … Record Source notes "Court at Wakefeud on Friday, the eve of S. Matthew the Apostle [September 21st]", 1275; section "Ravenesfeud". Baildon (1901), p. 153. Baildon's brackets. IRHB comments 'Prestley' is presumably Priestley Green. 'Fekesby' is Fixby. Lists ⁃ Not included in Sussex, Lucy 1994a. Sources ⁃ Baildon, William Paley 1901a, p. 153. Background ⁃ Wikipedia: Rastrick. Also see ⁃ 1275 - John Petit of Priestley (1) ⁃ 1275 - John Petit of Priestley (2) ⁃ 1275 - John Petit of Priestley (3) ⁃ 1275 - John Petit of Priestley (4) ⁃ 1275 - John Petit of Priestley (5) ⁃ Criminals named Little John (links) ⁃ Criminals named Little John (record texts) ⁃ Persons named Little John (links) ⁃ Persons named Little John (record texts) ⁃ Persons surnamed Littlejohn (links) …2 KB (246 words) - 07:11, 17 May 2022
- North to south: Priestley Green, Rastrick, Fixby. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2015-09-03. Revised by … Record Source notes "Court at Wakefield on Friday, the eve of S. Laurence [August 10th]", 1275; section "Ravenesfeud". Baildon (1901), pp. 143, 144. Baildon's brackets. IRHB comments 'Presteley' is presumably Priestley Green. 'Fekesby' is Fixby. Lists ⁃ Not included in Sussex, Lucy 1994a. Sources ⁃ Baildon, William Paley 1901a, p. 144; and see p. 143. Background ⁃ Wikipedia: Rastrick. Also see ⁃ 1275 - John Petit of Priestley (1) ⁃ 1275 - John Petit of Priestley (2) ⁃ 1275 - John Petit of Priestley (3) ⁃ 1275 - John Petit of Priestley (4) ⁃ 1275 - John Petit of Priestley (6) ⁃ Criminals named Little John (links) ⁃ Criminals named Little John (record texts) ⁃ Persons named Little John (links) ⁃ Persons named Little John (record texts) ⁃ Persons surnamed Littlejohn …2 KB (247 words) - 07:10, 17 May 2022
- North to south: Priestley Green, Rastrick, Fixby. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2015-09-03. Revised by … Record Source notes "Court at Wakefeud on the Friday in the Vigil of S. Peter the Apostle [June 29]", 1275; section "Ravenesfeud". Baildon (1901), pp. 132, 133. Baildon's brackets. IRHB comments 'Prestley' is presumably Priestley Green. 'Fekesby' is Fixby. Lists ⁃ Not included in Sussex, Lucy 1994a. Sources ⁃ Baildon, William Paley 1901a, p. 133; and see p. 132. Background ⁃ Wikipedia: Rastrick. Also see ⁃ 1275 - John Petit of Priestley (1) ⁃ 1275 - John Petit of Priestley (2) ⁃ 1275 - John Petit of Priestley (4) ⁃ 1275 - John Petit of Priestley (5) ⁃ 1275 - John Petit of Priestley (6) ⁃ Criminals named Little John (links) ⁃ Criminals named Little John (record texts) ⁃ Persons named Little John (links) ⁃ Persons named Little John (record texts) ⁃ Persons surnamed …2 KB (252 words) - 07:10, 17 May 2022
- Nottingham. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by … Nottingham, the hometown of the sheriff, is the (or a) locale in the vast majority of Robin Hood ballads, beginning with Robin Hood and the Monk (c. 1450). First recorded as "Snotengaham" in A.D. 895, the accepted etymology of "Nottingham" is "[t]he ham [homestead] of the people of Snot ", Gover, John Eric Bruce 1940a, p. 13. IRHB's brackets. Italics and bold type as in source the latter being a man's name. Nottingham in the ballads Gazetteers ⁃ Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a, pp. 300-301. Sources ⁃ Gover, John Eric Bruce 1940a, p. 13. Maps ⁃ 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XLII.NW (1885; surveyed 1880-81) ⁃ 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XLII.NW (1899; rev. 1901) ⁃ 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XLII.NW (1920; rev. 1919) ⁃ 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XLII.NW (c. 1947; rev. 1938). Notes geograph-4958979-by-John-Sutton.jpg|Nottingham skyline from Sneinton / …3 KB (419 words) - 13:51, 7 January 2021
- Robin Hood's Butts. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-06-04. Revised by … Photo courtesy Tim Prevett, MA, producer, consultant and lecturer on slow TV. 'Robin Hood's Butts' is the name of two adjacent Bronze Age bowl barrows in the northern area of the Long Mynd, near Duckley Nab, c. 3 km west of All Stretton. According to Dobson & Taylor, the name was applied to "[a] group of tumuli on the edge of the Long Mynd". Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a, p. 303, s.n. Robin Hood's Butts [1]. However, while more than twenty mounds, referred to collectively as the Long Mynd Barrows, are scattered over the plateau, Wikipedia: Long Mynd. the name 'Robin Hood's Butts' seems to be quite consistently applied to only two of them. The name appears on a fairly early O.S. map (1833) and was already in use by the early 18th century. Gelling, Margaret 1990a, pt. I, p. 225, referring to an unspecified MS source in the collection of Shropshire documents in the Local Studies Department of Shropshire …5 KB (739 words) - 13:50, 7 January 2021
- Doncaster. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by … The town of Doncaster (formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire, now administratively in South Yorkshire) is mentioned four times in the Gest (see Quotations below). According to Smith, the town is first referred to in a 4th century source as "Dano", while it occurs c. 800 as CairDaun and from 1086 on as 'Donceastre' (or similar). The etymology of the name is ' [f]ortification on the Don '. The form 'Donkesly', used in De Worde's edition of the Gest (st. 456), is not recorded by Smith who does, however, cite the form 'Doncastell' (1418). Smith, Albert Hugh 1961a, pt. 1, p. 29. In 1248, the town was granted a market to be held in the area around the Church of St Mary Magdalene; the market is still held. Major institutions in later medieval Doncaster were the Hospital of St Nicholas, the Hospital of St James (which housed a leper colony), a moot hall, grammar school, and a stone bridge with a chapel, Our Lady of …7 KB (1,005 words) - 18:18, 27 August 2021
- Approximate indication of the site of Little John Birch and Little John Birch Coppice. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-09-25. Revised by … Located at the north end of Bagot's Wood, 4.55 km SSW of Uttoxeter, Little John's Birch Coppice is first mentioned in 1823 (see Records below). While the coppice is not included on any of the 6" O.S. maps of the area online at NLS, the maps, published 1884 to c. 1849, all include Little John Birch tout court. Presumably this was a birch tree that gave its name to a coppice in which it stood. Also included on the maps is Big John Birch (see allusion below), which stood c. 300 m ESE of Little John Birch (Coppice). A Google search on 25 Sep. 2016 yielded no relevant results except a PDF of the printed source of the allusion, so this entry is to all intents and purposes the World Wide Web debut of Little John Birch and its coppice. The coordinates I have indicated for the coppice differ very slightly from those I cite for the birch itself. This …3 KB (472 words) - 00:51, 6 January 2021
- Short introduction We hope that this wiki will in due course come to live up to its somewhat grand name. It is called 'International' because in addition to the vast amount of material that exists in English, we intend to add information about materials in other languages such as translations of ballads, secondary literature, children's fiction, literature on foreign analogues of Robin Hood etc. Arguably 'Bibliography' is a misnomer as the site already includes a wealth of all sorts of information one would not normally expect to find in a bibliography, but the bibliographical aspect is in all cases taken quite seriously, and there is already a wiki named the Robin Hood Wiki, so another name had to be found for the site. Latest news NEW subsite: IRHB Editions, currently with a single edition: A Gest of Robyn Hode ⁃ 2024-03-12: All tithe awards for the following English counties have now been searched for Robin Hood-related place names: …36 KB (4,936 words) - 11:49, 22 March 2024
- Robin Hood Inn. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by … Around 1800, the Reverend Thomas Halliday, a local Unitarian minister and something of an entrepreneur, was so struck by the beauty, and similarity to Matlock in Derbyshire, of a spot along River Loxley then known as Cliff Rocher that he set out to transform it into Little Matlock, a name it retains to this day. Not content with altering the name, Halliday, spending his wife's inheritance, had stairs and paths cut into the rock and let trees and shrubs plant in order to accentuate the similarity to the picturesque valley in Derbyshire. The area was then opened to the public and for a few years attracted large numbers of visitors from Sheffield every summer. In 1799 or 1804, Cf. the pub's website, which is no longer online but archived (without photos) at The Wayback Machine. Also see 'Robin Hood pub slips into history after 200 years' (Sheffield Telegraph, Sep. 1, 2011). Halliday built a house, one half of …7 KB (1,033 words) - 15:32, 5 May 2022
- Robin Hood Ball. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-02. Revised by … The first certain record of Robin Hood Ball near Netheravon is Andrews's and Dury's 1773 map of Wiltshire, where it occurs as 'Robin Wood Ball'. Andrews, John 1773a, sheet [5]. Online version at Mcmaster University Library: Digital archive, see sheet 5, rectangles [7]-[8]. Also see map detail reproduced on the present page. The name refers sometimes to a neolithic feature just north of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site, Wikipedia: Robin Hood's Ball. sometimes to a small wooded area within which the neolithic site is located, and also erroneously to a tumulus a little SE of the wooded area and a larger earthwork c. 350 m SW of the coppice. It is possible that the 'Whood's Baall' figuring in land deeds dating from 1591 to 1667/68 should be identified with Robin Hood Ball. Which monument? According to the English Place-Name Society's volume on Wiltshire, the ME place-name element balle (n.) (ModE …19 KB (3,024 words) - 22:03, 11 May 2022
- The site of Robin Hood's Well. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-10-15. Revised by … Robin Hood's Well a.k.a. St Ann's Well was located in the north-eastern neighbourhood of Nottingham now known as St Ann, an area that was once part of Sherwood Forest and retained a bucolic character until the mid-19th century. Nottingham Hidden History Team: St Ann's Well by Joe Earp. The well, known by several names, played an important role in Nottingham civic life over the centuries. From the late 1550s on, borough Records list expenses relating to a procession of the mayor and members of the civic administration, wearing their official liveries and accompanied by musicians, to the well for a festive dinner in or outside the adjacent woodward's house. The history of the well from the mid-16th century to its destruction in the late 19th century is intertwined with that of the woodward's house, so both are treated together here. Names of the well The well is perhaps referred to in …29 KB (4,728 words) - 03:53, 12 February 2021
- Loxley, near Bramshall. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-10-18. Revised by … Allusion LOCHELER, OR LOCKESLEID. Loxley, in the parish of Uttoxeter, on the west, is an old Saxon name, and a place of considerable interest. It was a grant from the Crown to Robert de Ferrars, first Earl of Derby, who died in 1184. By the second Earl William, it was granted to his younger son Wakelin, and it was held by a Robert, an Alan, a Thomas, and Henry. From an inquisition taken after 1297, it appears that Loxley manor was held by the heirs of Thomas de Ferrars, who was the youngest son of William, third earl of Derby, who did homage for Chartley, which was exchanged by Thomas with his brother for Loxley. There is a blank here in this branch for one generation at least, and therefore the second Thomas, whose daughter Johanna, as sole heiress, brought Loxley to the Kynersleys by marriage in 1327 with John de Kynnardsley, must have been of a third generation from the first Thomas. In …12 KB (1,892 words) - 04:48, 17 January 2021