Hathersage Churchyard
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Hathersage Churchyard.
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Hathersage Churchyard / Gogle Earth Street View.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-03-17. Revised by 3.146.221.204, 2020-05-15.
Robin Hood is or was alleged to have shot an arrow from Robin Hood's Stoop on Offerton Moor which landed in the graveyard of St Michael and All Angels' Church in Hathersage, abot 2 km north-east of the Stoop.[1]
Gazetteers
- Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976); no separate entry, but see p. 297, s.n. 'Robin Hood's Stoop'.
Sources
- Cameron, Kenneth. The Place-Names of Derbyshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXVII-XXIX) (Cambridge, 1959), pt. I, p. 156; and see pt. I, p. lvii.
Background
- Wikipedia: St John the Baptist's Church, Bamford
- Wikipedia: St Michael and All Angels' Church, Hathersage.
Notes
- ↑ See Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 297, s.n. 'Robin Hood's Stoop'; Cameron, Kenneth. The Place-Names of Derbyshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXVII-XXIX) (Cambridge, 1959), pt. I, p. 156; and see pt. I, p. lvii.