Robin Hood's Butt (Wigginton)

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North: Robin Hood's Butt, Elford. South: general area where Robin Hood's Butt, Wigginton, may have been located.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Looking north at Lillingstone Avenue. Robin Hood's Butt was likely situated in this general area / Google Earth Street View]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-10-28. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-10-29.

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.

Sources

• PastScape: Robin Hoods Butt
• Shaw, Stebbing; et al. The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire, compiled from the Manuscripts of Huntbach, Loxdale, Bishop Lyttelton, and Other Collections of Dr. Wilkes, T. Feilde, &c. &c., Including Erdeswick's Survey of the County, and the Approved Parts of Dr. Plot's Natural History (London, 1798-1801), vol. I, p. 432. Not seen but cf. PastScape, just cited.
  • Shaw, Stebbing; et al. The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire (Classical County Histories) (East Ardsley, 1976), vol. I, p. 432.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Staffordshire LIX.6 (1884; surveyed 1882)
• 25" O.S. map Staffordshire LIX.6 (1902; rev. 1900) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Staffordshire LIX.6 (1902; rev. 1900)
• 25" O.S. map Staffordshire LIX.6 (1923; rev. 1921)
• 6" O.S. map Staffordshire LIX.NW (1883; surveyed 1882–83)
• 6" O.S. map Staffordshire LIX.NW (1903; rev. 1900) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Staffordshire LIX.NW (1903; rev. 1900)
• 6" O.S. map Staffordshire LIX (1924; rev. 1921)
• 6" O.S. map Staffordshire LIX.NW (1924; rev. 1921)
• 6" O.S. map Staffordshire LIX.NW (c. 1947; rev. 1938).

Discussion

• Wikipedia: Wigginton, Staffordshire
• Tamworth Time Hikes: Robin Hood's Butt
• Tamworth Time Hikes: Robin Hood's Butt and beyond.

Notes

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