Will Scarlet's Well (Stanbury)
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Locality | |
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Coordinates | Near 53.822967, -2.033383 |
Adm. div. | West Riding of Yorkshire |
Vicinity | 3.5 km WSW of Stanbury |
Type | Natural feature |
Interest | Robin Hood name |
Status | Extant |
First Record | 1899 |
Approximate location of Will Scarlet's Well.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-04. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-07.
Sutcliffe (1899)[1] seems to be the first source to mention Will Scarlet's Well high on Stanbury Moor. He notes that it and the neighbouring Robin Hood's Well (Stanbury) and Little John's Well are "[h]alf-hidden underground, and fringed with fern and bog-weed". Robin Hood's Well is first mentioned around the middle of the 19th century.
Allusions
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, but see p 311 (2nd item) for Robin Hood's Well.
Sources
- Robin Hood’s Well, Stanbury Moor, West Yorkshire.
- Sutcliffe, Halliwell. By Moor and Fell: Landscapes and Lang-Settle Lore from West Yorkshire (London, 1899).
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Notes
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