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Robin Hood's Penny Stone. ] By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-30. Revised by … Robin Hood's Penny Stone was a now vanished logan or rocking stone situated a few meters … itself was no longer there — on a 6" O.S. map of the area published in 1852 but surveyed 1847-49. 6" O.S. map Yorkshire Sheet 215 (1852, surveyed 1847-49) (at NLS). Also see Northern Antiquarian: Robin Hood’s Penny Stone, Wainstalls, West Yorkshire. A. H. Smith, Smith, Albert Hugh 1961a, pt. III, pp. 129, 135. followed by Dobson & Taylor, Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a, pp. 309-10. seems to have been led by Watson's mentioning "the road leading to the village of Luddenden" in the 1775 Allusion into believing that the Robin Hood's Penny Stone concerned there is that on Midgley Moor. The distance between the two can only have been about 3 km, yet it is clear that the rock Watson was discussing must …

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 … 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, …