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[[File:Kirklees Priory Gatehouse, Clifton - geograph.org.uk - 177762.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Kirklees Priory Gatehouse (photo: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirklees_Priory_Gatehouse,_Clifton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_177762.jpg Humphrey Bolton], 29 May 2006.)]]
[[File:Kirklees Priory Gatehouse, Clifton - geograph.org.uk - 177762.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Kirklees Priory Gatehouse / [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirklees_Priory_Gatehouse,_Clifton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_177762.jpg Humphrey Bolton], 29 May 2006.]]
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The gatehouse at Kirklees is where, according to tradition, Robin Hood shot his last arrow and died. He was to be buried where the arrow landed (see [[Robin Hood's Grave (Kirklees Priory)|Robin Hood's Grave]]). The gatehouse is the only part of Kirklees Priory left, and it seems to have been extensively rebuilt during the Elizabethan period.  
The gatehouse at Kirklees is where, according to tradition, Robin Hood shot his last arrow and died. He was to be buried where the arrow landed (see [[Robin Hood's Grave (Kirklees Priory)|Robin Hood's Grave]]). The gatehouse is the only part of Kirklees Priory left, and it seems to have been extensively rebuilt during the Elizabethan period.  
At a talk he gave to members of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society in 1906, the then owner of the Kirklees estate, George John Armytage, had this to say about the gatehouse:
At a talk he gave to members of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society in 1906, the then owner of the Kirklees estate, George John Armytage, had this to say about the gatehouse:
<blockquote>There is a mention of an old almshouse without the gate, and another, 40 feet long and 18 feet broad, by the beck side. This may refer to the present gate-house now standing [...]. This is supposed to be the house in which Robin Hood died, but that is another history, to which I do not propose to refer to-night. Mr. Bilson, however, thinks that this is a post-dissolution building. It has evidently been built at two different periods, the wooden portion being older than the stone.<ref>{{:Armytage, George John 1906a}}; see p. 178.</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>There is a mention of an old almshouse without the gate, and another, 40 feet long and 18 feet broad, by the beck side. This may refer to the present gate-house now standing [...]. This is supposed to be the house in which Robin Hood died, but that is another history, to which I do not propose to refer to-night. Mr. Bilson, however, thinks that this is a post-dissolution building. It has evidently been built at two different periods, the wooden portion being older than the stone.<ref>{{:Armytage, George John 1906a}}; see p. 178.</ref></blockquote>
=== Sources ===
The B version of the ballad of ''[[Robin Hood's Death]]'' (''c.'' 1767) ends with what is the earliest version of the famous scene of Robin Hood's death, where the outlaw shoots an arrow at random, asking to be buried where it lands. Although the ballad is silent about this, it was a widely believed that the Gatehouse at Kirklees Priory was the scene of Robin Hood's death. Popular tradition connects several other pairs of localities through arrows shot by Robin Hood and/or Little John. For these see the page on [[Places connected by bowshot]].
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== Gazetteers ==
* Not included in {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, pp. 293-311.
 
== Sources ==
* {{:Armytage, George John 1906a}}. Report of a presentation on the history of the priory and surviving documentary materials relating to it, on excavations, the Armytages' long ownership of the etstate, rediscovered nun's graves etc.
* {{:Armytage, George John 1906a}}. Report of a presentation on the history of the priory and surviving documentary materials relating to it, on excavations, the Armytages' long ownership of the etstate, rediscovered nun's graves etc.
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* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947620#zoom=6&lat=1642&lon=7287&layers=BT 6" O.S. map Yorkshire Sheet CCXXXI.SE (1894, surveyed 1889-92)]
== Maps ==
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947620#zoom=6&lat=1642&lon=7287&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CCXXXI.SE (1894, surveyed 1889-92)]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947617#zoom=5&lat=1726&lon=7134&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CCXXXI.SE (1908, rev. 1905)]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947617#zoom=5&lat=1726&lon=7134&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CCXXXI.SE (1908, rev. 1905)]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947614#zoom=5&lat=1744&lon=7289&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CCXXXI.SE (1931, rev. 1931)]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947614#zoom=5&lat=1744&lon=7289&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CCXXXI.SE (1931, rev. 1931)]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947611#zoom=5&lat=1784&lon=7141&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CCXXXI.SE (1946, rev. 1938)]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947611#zoom=5&lat=1784&lon=7141&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CCXXXI.SE (1946, rev. 1938)]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947608#zoom=5&lat=1750&lon=7179&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CCXXXI.SE (1949, rev. 1948.)]
* [http://maps.nls.uk/view/100947608#zoom=5&lat=1750&lon=7179&layers=BT 6" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CCXXXI.SE (1949, rev. 1948).]


=== Brief mention ===
== Brief mention ==
* {{:Anonymous 1881c}}, see p. 229.
* {{:Anonymous 1881c}}, see p. 229.
 
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=== Also see ===
* [[Kirklees Priory]]
* [[Robin Hood's Grave (Kirklees Priory)]]
* [[Kirklees place-name cluster]].


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<gallery widths="195px">File:Kirklees Priory Gatehouse, Clifton - geograph.org.uk - 177762.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Kirklees Priory Gatehouse / Photo: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirklees_Priory_Gatehouse,_Clifton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_177762.jpg Humphrey Bolton], 29 May 2006.
<gallery widths="195px">File:Kirklees Priory Gatehouse, Clifton - geograph.org.uk - 177762.jpg|Kirklees Priory Gatehouse / Photo: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirklees_Priory_Gatehouse,_Clifton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_177762.jpg Humphrey Bolton], 29 May 2006.
File:Postcard Anonymous 19xxb.jpg|thumb|right|500px|"The Room Robin Hood died in". Eearly 20th cent. postcard / Private collection.
File:Postcard Anonymous 19xxb.jpg|"The Room Robin Hood died in". Eearly 20th cent. postcard / Private collection.
File:Turner j h 1893a kirklees.jpg|thumb|right|500px|The Gatehouse / From: [[Turner, Joseph Horsfall 1893a|Turner, J. Horsfall. ''The History of Brighouse, Rastrick, and Hipperholme'' (Bingley, Yorkshire, 1893)]], p. 198.
File:Lilywhite Ltd 19xxa-r.jpg|{{:Lilywhite Ltd 19xxa}} / Private collection.
File:Turner j h 1893a kirklees gatehouse.jpg|thumb|right|500px|The Gatehouse / From: [[Turner, Joseph Horsfall 1893a|Turner, J. Horsfall. ''The History of Brighouse, Rastrick, and Hipperholme'' (Bingley, Yorkshire, 1893)]], p. 199.
File:Anonymous 19xxzi-r.jpg|{{:Anonymous 19xxzi}} / Private collection.
File:Turner j h 1893a kirklees.jpg|The Gatehouse / [[Turner, Joseph Horsfall 1893a|Turner, J. Horsfall. ''The History of Brighouse, Rastrick, and Hipperholme'' (Bingley, Yorkshire, 1893)]], p. 198.
File:Turner j h 1893a kirklees gatehouse.jpg|The Gatehouse / [[Turner, Joseph Horsfall 1893a|Turner, J. Horsfall. ''The History of Brighouse, Rastrick, and Hipperholme'' (Bingley, Yorkshire, 1893)]], p. 199.
File:Ritson-joseph-1853a-title-page.jpg|Little John shoots his last arrow / {{:Ritson, Joseph 1853a}}, t.-p.; private collection.
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The gatehouse
Kirklees Priory Gatehouse / Humphrey Bolton, 29 May 2006.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-06-07.

The gatehouse at Kirklees is where, according to tradition, Robin Hood shot his last arrow and died. He was to be buried where the arrow landed (see Robin Hood's Grave). The gatehouse is the only part of Kirklees Priory left, and it seems to have been extensively rebuilt during the Elizabethan period. At a talk he gave to members of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society in 1906, the then owner of the Kirklees estate, George John Armytage, had this to say about the gatehouse:

There is a mention of an old almshouse without the gate, and another, 40 feet long and 18 feet broad, by the beck side. This may refer to the present gate-house now standing [...]. This is supposed to be the house in which Robin Hood died, but that is another history, to which I do not propose to refer to-night. Mr. Bilson, however, thinks that this is a post-dissolution building. It has evidently been built at two different periods, the wooden portion being older than the stone.[1]

The B version of the ballad of Robin Hood's Death (c. 1767) ends with what is the earliest version of the famous scene of Robin Hood's death, where the outlaw shoots an arrow at random, asking to be buried where it lands. Although the ballad is silent about this, it was a widely believed that the Gatehouse at Kirklees Priory was the scene of Robin Hood's death. Popular tradition connects several other pairs of localities through arrows shot by Robin Hood and/or Little John. For these see the page on Places connected by bowshot. Template:PnItemQry

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