Robin Hood's Well (Halton Gill)
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Locality | |
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Coordinates | 54.203094, -2.201164 |
Adm. div. | West Riding of Yorkshire |
Vicinity | c. 2 km NNW of Halton Gill |
Type | Natural feature |
Interest | Robin Hood name |
Status | Extant? |
First Record | 1851 |
Approximate location of Robin Hood's Well.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-07-26. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-06-02.
Robin Hood's Well (Halton Gill), located high on the Pennines, is noted without any source reference in the English Place-Name Society's volume on the West Riding of Yorkshire.[1] The earliest occurrence of the name I have found is on a 6" O.S. map published in 1851.[2]
Gazetteers
Sources
- Smith, A.H. The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXX-XXXVII) (Cambridge, 1961-63), vol. VI (1961), p. 123.
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Notes
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