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  • The Robin Hood Inn, across the road from Robin Hood's Well. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-10-15. Revised by … Round Robin Hood's Well in Barnsdale a now vanished hamlet of the same name formed during the 17th and 18th … reference found so far occurs in Edward Miller's History and Antiquities of Doncaster and its Vicinity (see …
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  • The site of Robin Hood's Well. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-01. Revised by … Robin Hood's Bottle was one of the items in a little collection of alleged Robin Hood relics kept at the gamekeeper's lodge, a "victualling house" or restaurant at Robin Hood's Well a.k.a. St Ann's Well in the north-eastern neighbourhood of Nottingham now known as St Ann. The well and the gamekeeper's house played an important role in Nottingham civic life over the centuries. During some fifty years, from the late 1570's on, there was an annual procession of the Mayor and members of the civic administration, in official liveries and accompanied by musicians, to the well for a festive dinner in or outside the gamekeeper's house. Since the participation of the town fathers was mandatory, this in effect amounted to civic sponsorship of the establishment. However, during the 18th and 19th centuries the "victualling house" seems to have slowly declined in terms of prestige and the social composition of …
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  • The hamlet of Robin Hood. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-06-18. Revised by … There formerly was a hamlet named Robin Hood on the east side of Gatherley Road 650 m NE of Brompton on Swale. So far the earliest reference I have found is the 6" O.S. map of the area published in 1857, based on surveying carried out in 1854. The hamlet is indicated on all the 6" O.S. maps at NLS, the last of which was published in 1930 (see Maps section below), but is not found on modern maps. The 1857 map also shows a Robin Hood's Well, c. 180 m NNW of the hamlet, also on the east side of Gatherley Road. 6" O.S. map Yorkshire 39 (1857; surveyed 1854.) The latter was formerly a stretch of the Great North, and right here it was, intriguingly, called Watling Street, just like the stretch of the road passing through Barnsdale. Gazetteers ⁃ Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a, p. 306, s.n. Robin Hood. Maps ⁃ 6" O.S. map Yorkshire 39 (1857; surveyed 1854) ⁃ 6" O.S. map Yorkshire …
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  • Robin Hood's Well. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-06-18. Revised by … A well c. 750 m NNE of Brompton on Swale, on the east side of Gatherley Road, was formerly known as Robin Hood's Well. It is indicated on the 6" O.S. map of the area published in 1857, based on surveying done in 1854. 6" O.S. map Yorkshire 39 (1857; surveyed 1854) I have not found the locality indicated on later 6" O.S. maps (for which see Maps section below). The 1857 map also shows a hamlet named Robin Hood, c. 180 m SSE of the well, also on the east side of Gatherley Road. 6" O.S. map Yorkshire 39 (1857; surveyed 1854.) The latter was formerly a stretch of the Great North, and right here it was, intriguingly, called Watling Street, just like the stretch of the road passing through Barnsdale. Gazetteers ⁃ Not included in Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a, pp. 293-311. Maps ⁃ 6" O.S. map Yorkshire 39 (1857; surveyed 1854) ⁃ 6" O.S. map Yorkshire XXXIX (1895; surveyed 1891) ⁃ …
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  • Barnsley By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-15. Revised by … Barnsley can claim a tenuous connection with Robin Hood in that a fair young damsel who is abducted in the ballad of 'Robin Hood and the Tanner's Daughter', the C version of Erlinton (Child 8), is the offspring of "John Hobbes of Barneslee". This slight claim is in fact even less impressive than it seems at first sight, for the Robin Hood-themed version of Erlinton was written, in 1847 or slightly earlier, by the literary forger John Payne Collier. See IRHB's page on Erlinton, and while "Barneslee" can of course be taken to refer to the town of Barnsley, one cannot rule out the possibility that Collier intended it to sound like a garbled echo of "Barnsdale ". Quotations [Erlinton (Child 8 C), st. 5:] Child, Francis James 1882a, vol. I, p. 109. 'Where dost thou dwell, my prettie maide? I prithee tell to me;' 'I am a tanner's daughter,' she said, 'John Hobbes of Barneslee.' Gazetteers ⁃ Not included in …
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  • The site of Robin Hood's Well. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-01. Revised by … Robin Hood's Arrows were among the items in a little collection of alleged Robin Hood relics kept at the gamekeeper's lodge, a "victualling house" or restaurant at Robin Hood's Well a.k.a. St Ann's Well in the north-eastern neighbourhood of Nottingham now known as St Ann. The well and the gamekeeper's house played an important role in Nottingham civic life over the centuries. During some fifty years, from the late 1570's on, there was an annual procession of the Mayor and members of the civic administration, in official liveries and accompanied by musicians, to the well for a festive dinner in or outside the gamekeeper's house. Since the participation of the town fathers was mandatory, this in effect amounted to civic sponsorship of the establishment. However, during the 18th and 19th centuries the "victualling house" seems to have slowly declined in terms of prestige and the social composition of …
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  • The site of Robin Hood's Well. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-01. Revised by … Robin Hood's Boots were among the items in a little collection of alleged Robin Hood relics kept at the gamekeeper's lodge, a "victualling house" or restaurant at Robin Hood's Well a.k.a. St Ann's Well in the north-eastern neighbourhood of Nottingham now known as St Ann. The well and the gamekeeper's house played an important role in Nottingham civic life over the centuries. During some fifty years, from the late 1570's on, there was an annual procession of the Mayor and members of the civic administration, in official liveries and accompanied by musicians, to the well for a festive dinner in or outside the gamekeeper's house. Since the participation of the town fathers was mandatory, this in effect amounted to civic sponsorship of the establishment. However, during the 18th and 19th centuries the "victualling house" seems to have slowly declined in terms of prestige and the social composition of …
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  • Barnsdale Bar where the Great North Road forks; both branches were called Watling … locally, to several other stretches of Roman road, including two or three in Barnsdale. Since the 1970s it has been generally assumed that the Sayles to which Robin … for wayfarers should be identified with Sayles Plantation near Wentbridge. In Barnsdale, at Barnsdale Bar, the Great North road forks into a north-westerly and a north-easterly branch, both of which were called Watling Street and both of which pass through Wentbridge. The name is recorded for the north-westerly branch (now …
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  • The site of Robin Hood's Well. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-02. Revised by … Robin Hood's Cap was among the items in a little collection of alleged Robin Hood relics kept at the gamekeeper's lodge, a "victualling house" or restaurant at Robin Hood's Well a.k.a. St Ann's Well in the north-eastern neighbourhood of Nottingham now known as St Ann. The well and the gamekeeper's house played an important role in Nottingham civic life over the centuries. During some fifty years, from the late 1570's on, there was an annual procession of the Mayor and members of the civic administration, in official liveries and accompanied by musicians, to the well for a festive dinner in or outside the gamekeeper's house. Since the participation of the town fathers was mandatory, this in effect amounted to civic sponsorship of the establishment. However, during the 18th and 19th centuries the "victualling house" seems to have slowly declined in terms of prestige and the social composition of the …
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  • The site of Robin Hood's Well. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-02. Revised by … Robin Hood's Chair was among the items in a little collection of alleged Robin Hood relics kept at the gamekeeper's lodge, a "victualling house" or restaurant at Robin Hood's Well a.k.a. St Ann's Well in the north-eastern neighbourhood of Nottingham now known as St Ann. The well and the gamekeeper's house played an important role in Nottingham civic life over the centuries. During some fifty years, from the late 1570's on, there was an annual procession of the Mayor and members of the civic administration, in official liveries and accompanied by musicians, to the well for a festive dinner in or outside the gamekeeper's house. Since the participation of the town fathers was mandatory, this in effect amounted to civic sponsorship of the establishment. However, during the 18th and 19th centuries the "victualling house" seems to have slowly declined in terms of prestige and the social composition of …
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  • The site of Robin Hood's Well. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-02. Revised by … Robin Hood's Bow was among the items in a little collection of alleged Robin Hood relics kept at the gamekeeper's lodge, a "victualling house" or restaurant at Robin Hood's Well a.k.a. St Ann's Well in the north-eastern neighbourhood of Nottingham now known as St Ann. The well and the gamekeeper's house played an important role in Nottingham civic life over the centuries. During some fifty years, from the late 1570's on, there was an annual procession of the Mayor and members of the civic administration, in official liveries and accompanied by musicians, to the well for a festive dinner in or outside the gamekeeper's house. Since the participation of the town fathers was mandatory, this in effect amounted to civic sponsorship of the establishment. However, during the 18th and 19th centuries the "victualling house" seems to have slowly declined in terms of prestige and the social composition of the …
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  • Wentbridge. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-04. Revised by … Several photos courtesy Richard Hawlor. Referred to in the Gest of Robyn Hode and Robin Hood and the Potter, Wentbridge is the name both of a bridge – first mentioned in 1190 as "pontem de Wente" Smith, Albert Hugh 1961a, pt. II, pp. 51. – over the river Went and the village that grew up around it at the northern boundary of Barnsdale. The village lies athwart the original Great North Road and hence would have been well known to travellers along this main road from London to the north and Scotland. Before the modern road was constructed, the deep incline at Wentbridge, 1 in 16, made this a dangerous place for travellers on horseback or in a horse driven carriage. Passengers would generally have had to leave the carriage during descent, as braking was dangerous, and during ascent in order to lighten the burden for the horses. Hence this was a very well chosen locale for a tale about a …
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  • N to S: Castle Hill, Inch Lane, Burghwallis (Barnsdale Lodge), and Styrrup. Green ribbon meandering from Conisbrough (W of Doncaster) to Holmfirth is River Dearne. Waypoints for River Dearne provided by OpenStreetMap users SpooneyGreen, Nigel Greens, Yorvik Prestigitator, Rob Dyson, RobChafer, LeedsTracker, Pobice, Dykan Hayes, Sundance, sc71, Paul Berry, Steeley, Firefishy, myfanwy, War­of­dreams, denbydale, The Trautbec, and Med; adapted by Henrik Thiil Nielsen. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-10-08. Revised by … In my discussion of Wentbridge, I note that the cryptic allusion to it in the Gest, "But as he went at a brydge ther was a wraste-lyng", Gest, st. 135. may be the result of an attempt at emendation by a printer who had not heard about the place See my discussion of Wentbridge. and therefore could not make sense of the line ⁃"But at wente brydge ther was a wrastelyng". The asterisk indicates a hypothetical reading. However, it is certainly …
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  • The marker indicates the probable centre of Barnsdale, at whose northern boundary lay Wentbridge. Barnsdale's extent in the west-east direction would have been similar to that north-south. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by … Barnsdale was one of Robin Hood's two chief haunts in the medieval and early modern … it was an area straddling the Great North Road about halfway between Doncaster and Pontefract in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Following Dobson & Taylor … and extent" below) suggest this may not be necessary. The etymology of "Barnsdale" is "Beorn's valley", Smith, Albert Hugh 1961a, pt. II, p. 37. Beorn being an OE personal name, which occurs also in other place-names, for instance Barnsley (c. 18 km …
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  • 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: …
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  • By the coast: Caister Castle. The Pastons were in intermittent possession of Caister Castle, and it may have been where W. Wood performed in one or more Robin Hood plays. Well inland: Norwich, another possible venue for W. Wood's performances. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by … Allusion           Wyrsshypffull and ryght hertyly belowyd broþer, I recomande me on-to yow, letyng yow wet e þ a t on Wednysdaye last past I wrot e yow a lett er wheroff John Garbalde had þe beryng, promyttyng me þ a t ye shold haue it at Norwyche þys daye or ellys to-morowe in þe mornyng; wherin I praye yow to take a labor e acordyng afftr e þe tenur e off þe same, and þ a t I maye haue an answer e at London to Hoxon iff any massenger come, as eu[er]e I maye doo for e yow. As for tydyng ys, þer e was a truse taken at Brussellys abut þe xxvj daye off Marche last past be-twyn þe Duke off Borgoyn and ' þe Frense Kyng ys …
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