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By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-06. Revised by … Allusion Source notes IRHB's brackets. Lists ⁃ Not included in Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a, pp. 293-11. ⁃ Outside scope of Sussex, Lucy 1994a. Sources ⁃ Thoresby, Ralph 1830a, vol. 1, pp. 146-47. Background ⁃ Wikipedia: Ralph Thoresby. Notes

Robin Hood and Little John, Hampsfield By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-15. … east of Heaning Wood, c. 1.3 km SE of Field Broughton, used to be known as 'Robin Hood and Little John'. Though their collective name seems to have gone out of use, the two large stones still exist. The earliest record of Robin Hood and Little John known to IRHB is a 6" O.S. map published in 1851, based … as late as c. 1947 and possibly later. James Stockdale noted in 1872 (see Allusions below) that they had "from time immemorial gone by the names of Robin Hood and Little John", but "[n]o reasons for these names are known". He suggested that they might have served as boundary marks for shepherds when the area was unenclosed. A recent arcaheological survey lists the stones as "possibly boundary markers of Medieval date", noting …

Robin Hood's Bay. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by … Entry based in part on information from Robert Lynley. Robin Hood's Bay is the name of a Bay on the North Yorkshire coast, 8 km south of Whitby, as well as a picturesque village on the north side of the Bay. Cited as "Robyn Oeds Bay" in a letter sent from the count of Flanders to a King Edward (probably Edward II, possibly Edward III) some time in the period 1324–46 (see Allusions below), Robin Hood's Bay is the earliest recorded of all Robin Hood place-names. Fishing was the main industry at Robin Hood's Bay until World War I, but already then this little picturesque town by the sea … for well-heeled Englishmen. The local colloquial name for the town is simply Bay; Pease, Alfred Edward 1928a, Appendix IV (unpaginated). on early 20th century postcards – of which there are a substantial number – it can be found …

From north to south: Whitby Abbey with the Robin Hood-related localities and artefacts at Whitby Laithes. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-05-29. Revised by … There are no Robin Hood-related place-names within or in the immediate vicinity of the ruins of … but a local tale connects the abbey with a cluster of localities that have Robin Hood-related names, just west of Whitby Laithes and c. 2.35 km SE of Whitby. Here are found Robin Hood's Close and to its immediate south Little John's Close. As early as 1540 a stone called Robin Hood's Stone stood in Robin Hood's Close. Little John's Stone may well have stood in Little John's Close already at that time, but we have no direct evidence of this. According to Lionel Charlton, who gave an interesting account of these stones and fields in his History of Whitby (1779), Charlton, Lionel 1779a, pp. 146-47. at some point in the early 18th century the two stones were moved to the edge of their respective fields, …

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 … 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 … tithe awards for the following English counties have now been searched for Robin Hood-related place names: …