Chinley Churn (Chinley)
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Chinley Churn / Rude Health, 19 Jan. 2011, Creative Commons via Geograph.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-21. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-21.
According to early 19th century tradition, Robin Hood shot an arrow from the Dipping Stone at Whaley Moor to Chinley Churn.
William Marriott's account in his Antiquities of Lyme and its Vicinity, published in 1810 (see Allusions), is the only known source for this tradition. Unfortunately he was more interested in developing elaborate hypotheses about the origins of various stone monuments in Lyme Handley and its vicinity than in giving a detailed account of the popular traditions on which his speculation was largely based. On Chinley he says among other things:
Tradition, information from someone he trusted, the elevation of the ground and the belief that the area had formerly been known as 'Main Stone Field' thus led him to the conclusion that there had once been a monument there. He felt there were traces of an ancient encampment in the vicinity (see image gallery below). He takes "Chinley Churn" as the name of a cairn on the top of the hill to which he refers as Chinley tout court but which is now known as Chinley Churn.
Gazetteers
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.
Sources
- Marriott, William. The Antiquities of Lyme and its Vicinity (Stockport, 1810), pp. 6, 18-27, 58-59, 393-97, and passim.
Maps
- 6" O.S. map Derbyshire VIII.NE (1882; surveyed 1879)
- 6" O.S. map Derbyshire VIII.NE (1899; rev. 1896-97) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Derbyshire VIII.NE (1899; rev. 1896-97)
- 6" O.S. map Derbyshire VIII (1924; rev. 1919-20)
- 6" O.S. map Derbyshire VIII.NE (1924; rev. 1919)
- 6" O.S. map Derbyshire VIII.NE (c. 1946; rev. 1938)
- 25" O.S: map Derbyshire VIII.8 (c. 1880; surveyed c. 1878-79). No Copy in NLS
- 25" O.S: map Derbyshire VIII.8 (c. 1899; rev. c. 1897). No Copy in NLS
- 25" O.S. map Derbyshire VIII.8 (1921; rev. 1919) (georeferenced)]
- 25" O.S. map Derbyshire VIII.8 (1921; rev. 1919)
- 25" O.S. map Derbyshire VIII.8 (1945; rev. 1938).
Background
- [Guide to England's Hills & Mountains: Chinley Churn]
- PastScape: Monument No. 306310.
Notes
- ↑ Marriott, William. The Antiquities of Lyme and its Vicinity (Stockport, 1810), p. 6. Marriott's italics. IRHB's brackets.
Chinley Churn / Rude Health, 19 Jan. 2011, Creative Commons via Geograph.
Traces of a supposed Roman encampment / Antiquities of Lyme and its Vicinity (1810), plate facing p. 306.