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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 centuries, when the Well was one of the must-see sites for tourists and travellers along the Great … their names. It will hardly surprise anybody that one of them was called the Robin Hood Inn. It is indicated by this name on 6" O.S. map Sheet 264, published in 1854 but based on a survey of the area carried out in 1849 (see Maps section below). The earliest 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 … 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 … 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. … 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 … (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; … 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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  • 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 … 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 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 … 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, 2017-05-01. 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 … 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 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 … 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 … 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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  • By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-08. Revised by … The legal maxim "Robin Hood in Barnsdale stood", with variants such as "Barndale", "Barnwood", "Sherwood", … of this expression. In view of (then) prevailing attitudes to tales of Robin Hood, could its signification be as unspecific as 'tush', 'nonsense' or … year books and other summaries of legal cases, the citations include literary Allusions and poetry fragments that include the phrase "Robin Hood in Barnsdale (Sherwood etc.) stood. Collection and lists ⁃ Not included in Dobson, Richard Barrie …
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  • The site of Robin Hood's Cave, now submerged by Rutland Water. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-05-26. … Water lie the remnants of a medieval moated site that used to be known as Robin Hood's Cave. What is left of Barnsdale Wood is located a little to the north, while Armley Wood, now largely … a little south of the moated site. Bernard's Hill Park, later known as Barnsdale Park, See page on Barnsdale (Exton). once covered the entire area, and it has been suggested that the … Cox, Barrie 1994a, p. 22. According to a recent article in a local newspaper, Robin Hood's Cave was filled in in 1939. ⁃ Waites, Brian. 'Was national legend Robin Hood the outlaw of the Forest of Rutland?, Rutland Times, published 21 January 2015. A few decades …
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  • By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-09-12. Revised by … Allusion Source notes Holt includes a reproduction of the MS page. Holt (1982), p. 70. IRHB comments Unusually for an allusion to Robin Hood almost every word in this one is a keyword. As Holt notes, this acrostic … were entirely fictional, formed an acrostic making up a benign prayer for the Well-being of those representing the local communities at Westminster." Holt (1982), p. 69. Luckily for us, his lyrical efforts the preceding year showed a more popular and secular tendency. There are vague similarities with the first few stanzas of the Gest. With "Robyn hode Inne Grenewode Stode" compare st. 3 1: "Robyn stode in Bernesdale". With "Godeman was hee" compare st. 2 2-3: "I …
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  • By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-09. Revised by … Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford is an 18th century broadside ballad known in … vol. III, p. 194. the Bishop of Hereford is also a character in the ballad of Robin Hood and Queen Katherine (Child 145), where he remembers how Robin Hood made him sing mass and extracted an enforced loan from him. The earliest … Child feels is uncertain. According to Chappell it was the most popular Robin Hood ballad in the mid-19th century. Chappell, William 1855a, vol. II, p. 395. Plot The Bishop of Hereford will be passing through Barnsdale. Robin Hood orders his men to kill a deer: the bishop is going to dine with him and pay exorbitantly for it. Dressed as shepherds, Robin and six of his men …
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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 … 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 … 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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  • By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-01-07. Revised by … Huntingdon, formerly the county town of Huntingdonshire, now relegated to the status of a market town in Cambridgeshire, does not in itself have any clear connection with the outlaw, but from c. 1598 on Robin Hood has been frequently portrayed as earl of Huntingdon. He was endowed with … film makers. A tragedy with a lowborn criminal as its hero would not have sat Well with Elizabethan theatre audiences, at least not with those segments who could afford the more expensive admission fees, so when it was decided that a proper Robin Hood tragedy must be written and staged, it was probably inevitable that the … Grafton in 1568 claimed to have read "in an olde an auncient Pamphlet" that Robin Hood "discended of a noble parentage: or …
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  • Barnsdale Bar where the Great North Road forks; both branches were called Watling … Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-17. Revised by … In the Gest of Robyn Hode, Robin Hood sends his men to 'Watlinge Strete' to look out for wayfarers. '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 Hood sends three of his men to look out 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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  • 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 … 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 … 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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  • Spur Bridge, Aunby, near which Robin Hood's Cross was probably located. By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-17. Revised by … At least until the mid-16th century, a 'Robin Hood's Cross' stod on or near the Rutland–Lincolnshire county boundary, somewhere north of Stamford. It is recorded twice in the years 1524–35. The editor of State Papers Henry VIII Anonymous 1836a, p. 90. believed the "Robyn Hoddes Crosse" mentioned in a 1524 letter from Thomas Wolsey to Thomas Howard (1473-1554), 3rd Duke of Norfolk and Earl Marshall (see Allusion below), was situated somewhere in Northumberland, Ibid., p. 478. but this must be a mistake. First, for what it is worth, I have never seen any mention of such a place in Northumberland. Secondly, I believe the editor was led to conclude that the Duke was already in Northumberland by Wolsey's instructing the Duke to write to the King and Queen of Scotland that he "be commyn unto the Borders" to assist them. He may also have been …
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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 outlaw tradition. Never … 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 … 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: …
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