Search results

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-19. Revised by … Robin Hood place-names, localities with local traditions, literary locales etc. in or near Hazel Grove, Cheshire:

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-17. Revised by … Robin Hood place-names, localities with local traditions, literary locales etc. in or near Lostock Gralam, Cheshire:

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-20. Revised by … Robin Hood place-names, localities with local traditions, literary locales etc. in or near Knutsford:

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-19. Revised by … Robin Hood place-names, localities with local traditions, literary locales etc. in or near Sutton, Macclesfield:

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-01-21. Revised by … Robin Hood place-names, localities with local traditions, literary locales etc. in or near Helsby:

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-04-21. Revised by … Robin Hood place-names, localities with local traditions, literary locales etc. in or near , :

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-06-18. Revised by … Robin Hood place-names, localities with local traditions, literary locales etc. in or near , :

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-02-28. Revised by … Robin Hood place-names, localities with local traditions, literary locales etc. in or near , :

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-02-27. Revised by … Robin Hood place-names, localities with local traditions, literary locales etc. in or near , :

West to East: Robin Hood's Bow Stones (Lyme Handley); the Dipping Stone (Whaley Moor); Chinley Churn (Chinley). North: Robin Hood's Picking Rods (Chisworth). South: Rough Low Tor (N. of Buxton). From the two latter back to Robin Hood's Bow Stones. All in a days work for a High Peak archer! By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-21. Revised by … If we can believe William Marriott, author of The Antiquities of Lyme and its Vicinity (1810), at least five supposed ancient stone monuments in the High Peak were connected in early 19th century popular tradition by Robin Hood's allegedly having shot an arrow from one to another. Alternatively, perhaps the traditions in question only concerned pairs of monuments, and Marriott connected them all in order, as it were, to construct a grand unified hypothesis on the origin of High Peak stone monuments. According to Marriott, Robin Hood shot an arrow from the site of the Bow Stones near Lyme Handley to that of the Dipping Stone at Whaley Moor, …