Hathersage Church

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Approximate location of Hathersage Church.

Hathersage Church / Colin Jackson, Creative Commons, via Panoramio.]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-03. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-30.

Not only is Little John's grave located in Hathersage churchyard, but inside the church were found, until c. 1750, Little John's bow, helmet, arrows, and chain mail. By 1868 the helmet and bow were said to be in the collection at Parham House.

Sources

• White, William. General Directory of the Town and Borough of Sheffield, with Rotheram, Chesterfield, and all the Parishes, Townships, Villages, and Hamlets, within a Circuit of Twelve Miles round the Capital of Hallamshire (Sheffield, 1845), p. 376

Also see

• Hathersage place-name cluster
• Hathersage Church place-name cluster
• Places named after Little John.

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  Hathersage Church / Colin Jackson, Creative Commons, via Panoramio.]

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  Anonymous. Church Interior Hathersage ([s.l.], [s.d.]), Photo­graphic post­card (monochrome)