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* {{:Cunningham, Allan 1838f}}, see p. 313 n.
* {{:Cunningham, Allan 1838f}}, see p. 313 n.
* {{:Gutch, John Mathew 1847a}}, vol. II, p. iv.
* {{:Gutch, John Mathew 1847a}}, vol. II, p. iv.
* {{:Unknown 1804a}}, ff. 21b, 25; not seen, but cf. Cunningham and Gutch above.
* {{:Unknown 1794a}}, ff. 21b, 25; not seen, but cf. Cunningham and Gutch above.
 
== Maps ==
== Maps ==
* 25" O.S. map ''Derbyshire'' XXX.9 (''c.'' 1880; surveyed ''c.'' 1875). (No Copy in NLS)
* 25" O.S. map ''Derbyshire'' XXX.9 (''c.'' 1880; surveyed ''c.'' 1875). (No Copy in NLS)

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Eastwood Rocks, Ashover

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-09-29. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-09-29.

A local tradition connected Eastwood Rocks near Ashover, Chesterfield, with Robin Hood's Stride, about 13.5 to the west. It was said that Robin Hood and Little John had shot an arrow each from Eastwood Rocks to Robin Hood's Stride near Harthill. Little John hit the target, but Robin Hood's arrow fell in the valley below the rocks.

A drawing of Robin Hood's Stride in a manuscript in the collection of archery-related literature, prints and drawings of the famous English naturalist, botanist (and archer) Joseph Banks (1743–1820) is accompanied by this note:

The tradition of the neighbourhood is, that Robin Hood and Little John stood upon Eastwood Rocks, about 1½ miles off, and shot at this stone:—Little John's hit it, but Robin Hood's fell short of it in the valley below.[1]

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