Robin Hood's Well (Halton Gill)

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Approximate location of Robin Hood's Well.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-07-26. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-06.

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. The earliest occurrence of the name I have found is on a 6" O.S. map published in 1851.

Gazetteers

• Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 310.

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.

Maps

• O.S. 6" map, Yorkshire Sheet 97 (1851) at NLS.

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