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robin-hoods-cave-annesley-rich-CROPPED.jpg|Robin Hood's Cave is here in the darkest area among the bracken. Cropped photo / Courtesy Rich.
robin-hoods-cave-annesley-rich.jpg|Preceding photo uncropped / Courtesy Rich.
robin-hoods-hills-annesley-rich.jpg|'Robin Hood's Hills as you first see them from Shoulder of Mutton Hill in Annesley. The cave would be off to the right of the photo' / Courtesy Rich.
robin-hoods-cave-annesley-rich-2.jpg|This photo 'shows the location of the cave, currently hiding in bracken' / Courtesy Rich.
robin-hoods-cave-annesley-rich-3.jpg|This photo 'shows the cave as I first spotted it &ndash; my eye was drawn to the dark area behind the bracken in the middle of the photo / Courtesy Rich.
robin-hoods-cave-annesley-rich-4.jpg|The 'roof of the cave after I'd done a bit of excavation with the big stick at the bottom of the photo' / Courtesy Rich.
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Revision as of 16:35, 19 May 2020

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Robin Hood's Chair.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Robin Hood's Cave is here in the darkest area among the bracken. Cropped photo / Courtesy Rich. Also see photos in gallery below.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-10-04. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-05-19. Photos and information courtesy Rich.

Now filled in and hidden to the casual passer-by, Robin Hood's Cave sits near a path immediately east of Derby Road, some 1.5 km SSE of central Kirkby in Ashfield. About 700 m NE of the site of the cave are found Robin Hood's Hills and Robin Hood's Chair, while the Robin Hood, a public house, could once be frequented about 600 m S of the Cave, just south of Annesley at what was then a crossroads but is now the corner of Derby Road and Forest Road. The earliest source for this place-name would seem to be an O.S. map from c. 1825.[1]


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