Robin Hood's Well (Fountains Earth)

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Location of Robin Hood's Well.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Approximate indication of the site of Robin Hood's Well / Google Earth Street View.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-25. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-04-05.

Like Robin Hood's Park, Robin Hood's Well was located in the immediate vicinity of Sigsworth Grange, in pre-Reformation times a cattle lodge belonging to Fountains Abbey.[1] Macquoid, Allusion 1883 below, gives an account of the well based on the 1863 Allusion but does not cite the verse quoted there or add anything of substance. Robin Hood's Well is not included in the 1838 tithe award for Fountains Earth.[2]

Note that the verse quoted in the 1863 Allusion is said elsewhere to have been written by Walter Scott for use as an inscription for Robin Hood's Well at Fountains Abbey. "Doubergill" is now Dauber Gill. Template:PnItemQry

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  1. For the Nidderdale cattle lodges of Fountains Abbey see Platt, Colin. The Monastic Grange in Medieval England: a Reassessment (New York, 1969), pp. 74, 102 n. 1, 109.
  2. See tithe award at The Genealogist, piece 043, sub-piece 162 (subscription required).



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