Little John's Well (Outseats, Hathersage)

Locality
Coordinate	53.3113, -1.6022
Adm. div.	Derbyshire
Vicinity	c. 475 m. SSE of Longshaw Lodge; c. 3 km ESE of Hathersage
Type	Natural feature
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	1882

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Little John's Well.

Little John's Well. Steps lead down to a water trough fed by a natural spring / Roger Temple, 5 Sep. 2007, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-08-31. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

Little John's Well in Hathersage parish is located c. 475 m SSE of Longshaw Lodge and c. 500 m SSW of Robin Hood's Well. Dobson & Taylor are no doubt correct in noting that the two wells are "closely related". So far the first source I known to mention this Little John's Well is the 6" O.S. map of the area published in 1882 (see Maps section below).

Gazetteers

• Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 296, s.n. 'Little John's Well'.

Sources

• Northern Antiquarian: Holy Wells, Healing Springs & Spas.

Background

• Cameron, Kenneth. The Place-Names of Derbyshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXVII-XXIX) (Cambridge, 1959).

Maps

• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XVII.NW (1883; surveyed 1876-80)
• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XVII.NW (1898; surveyed 1897)
• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XVII.NW (1923; rev. 1919)
• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XVII (1924; rev. 1919)
• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XVII (c. 1933; rev. 1919)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 100 (1909).

Also see

• Outseats place-name cluster
• Hathersage place-name cluster
• Places named Little John's Well
• Places named after Little John.

Notes

 Derbyshire place-names 

 Place-names