Robin Hood's Cross (Hazelbadge)
From International Robin Hood Bibliography
Robin Hood's Cross.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-08-30. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-12.
Robin Hood's Cross is the name of a medieval wayside cross, of which now only the base survives, about 1.25 km SE of Bradwell in the parish of Hazelbadge. Dobson & Taylor suggest it may have originated as a boundary mark.[1] It is recorded in 1319 as 'Robin Crosse' and is indicated as 'the Robins Crosse' on a 1640 unpublished map.[2] Dobson & taylor in their entry of this place-name use the form 'Robin Hood Cross'. The form with genitive 's' appears on the 6" O.S. maps from the years 1883 to 1923 (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. 'Robin Hood Cross'.
Sources
- Cameron, Kenneth. The Place-Names of Derbyshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXVII-XXIX) (Cambridge, 1959), pt. I, p. 118; pt. III, p. 760; for his source see pt. I, p. lviii.
Maps
- 6" O.S. map Derbyshire X.SW (1883; surveyed 1880)
- 1" O.S. map Sheet 99 (Hills) (1896)
- 1" O.S. map Sheet 99 (Outline) (1896)
- 6" O.S. map Derbyshire X.SW (1899; rev. 1897)
- 6" O.S. map Derbyshire X (1923; rev. 1919)
- 6" O.S. map Derbyshire X.SW (1923; rev. 1919).
Notes
- ↑ Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 296, s.n. 'Robin Hood Cross'.
- ↑ Cameron, Kenneth. The Place-Names of Derbyshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXVII-XXIX) (Cambridge, 1959), pt. I, p. 118; also briefly mentioned there, pt. III, p. 760. Dobson & Taylor, loc.cit, incorrectly cite the 1640 form as 'the Robin Crosse'.