Robin Hood's Cave (Kirkby in Ashfield)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Approximate location of Robin Hood's Chair.
Robin Hood's Cave is hidden somewhere under the bracken (photo by Rob Howl, from Panoramio – no longer online).
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-10-04. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-18.
Now said to be below ground,[1] Robin Hood's Cave was (is) located by 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.[2]
Gazetteers
- Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 302, s.n. 'Robin Hood's Cave' [II] and 'Robin Hood's Hills'
- Gover, J.E.B.; Mawer, Allen; Stenton, F.M. The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire (English Place-Name Society, vol. XVII) (Cambridge, 1940), pp. 64, 294.
Maps
- 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVII.SE (1886; surveyed 1877-78).
- 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVII.SE (1900; rev. 1898).
- 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVII.SE (1921; rev. 1913-14).
- 6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXVII.SE (c. 1949; rev. 1938).
Background
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