Little John (Hardcastle Moor)

Locality
Coordinate	54.0839, -1.8399
Adm. div.	West Riding of Yorkshire
Vicinity	c. 6 km W of Pateley Bridge
Type	Miscellaneous
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Defunct?
First Record	1854

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Little John, the quarry.

Hollin Crags gritstone outcrop c. 200 m from the site of Little John / Mick Borroff, 23 Sep. 2007, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-08-09. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-06.

The first 6" O.S. map of the Bewerley–Thornthwaite–Padside area, published in 1854, surveyed 1849-50, has the name "Little John" next to what must be the marker for a quarry, on Hardcastle Moor, towards the SE end of the present Yorkshire Dales National Park. The quarry was situated immediately east of a footpath, not shown on Google Maps, but then running approximately NNW to SSE through the area. The quarry is not indicated on the later 6" O.S. maps. It is uncertain if the name had anything to do with Robin Hood's second-in-command; in the immediate vicinity was a quarry named Little Betty.

This part of Yorkshire then belonged to the West Riding but is now part of the North Riding. A search for "Little John" and "Hardcastle Moor" on 9 August 2016 yielded no relevant results.

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.

Maps

• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire 135 (1854, surveyed 1849-50)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CXXXV (1895, rev. 1889-90)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CXXXV.NW (1910, rev. 1907)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CXXXV.NW (1910, rev. 1907).

Also see

• Places named after Little John
• Places named Robin Hood's Quarry.

Notes

 West Riding of Yorkshire place-names 

 Yorkshire place-names 

 Place-names