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Robin Hood's Well, High Park Wood, Moorgreen, Nottinghamshire.

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By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-02-27. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-02-27.

Robin Hood's Well in High Park Wood, Moorgreen, Greasley civil parish, Nottinghamshire, is a spring known from D.H. Lawrence's delightful Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), where it appears as "John's Well". It is situated c. 125 m NE of the site of Beauvale Priory.

The well is noted in the English Place-Name Society's volume on Nottinghamshire,^[1] but without a source or date, which indicates that the editors knew no early source. The earliest reference I have at present is a 6" O.S. map of the area published in 1880 (see Maps section below).

Allusions

1913 - Lawrence, D H - Sons and Lovers

Carston, Waite and Co. found they had struck on a good thing, so, down the valleys of the brooks from Selby and Nuttall, new mines were sunk, until soon there were six pits working. From Nuttall, high up on the sandstone among the woods, the railway ran, past the ruined priory of the Carthusians and past Robin Hood’s Well, down to Spinney Park, then on to Minton, a large mine among corn-fields; from Minton across the farm-lands of the valley side to Bunker’s Hill, branching off there, and running north to Beggarlee [p. 10:] and Selby, that looks over at Crich and the hills of Derbyshire; six mines like black studs on the countryside, linked by a loop of fine chain, the railway.^[2]

Gazetteers

Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 303, s.n. Robin Hood's Well.

Sources

Gover, J.E.B.; Mawer, Allen; Stenton, F.M. The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire (English Place-Name Society, vol. XVII) (Cambridge, 1940), pp. 145, 294.

Maps

Well indicated and labelled on these maps.

25" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXXII.15 (1880; surveyed 1878)
25" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXXII.11 (1900; rev. 1899)
25" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXXII.11 (1900; rev. 1899) (georeferenced)
25" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXXII.15 (1915; rev. 1913-14)
6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXXII.SE (1886; surveyed 1878-79)
6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXXII.SE (1901; rev. 1899)
6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXXII.SE (1901; rev. 1899) (georeferenced)
6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXXII.SE (1919; rev. 1913-14)
6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXXII.SE (1921; rev. 1913-14)
6" O.S. map Derbyshire XLI (1921; rev. 1913-14)
6" O.S. map Nottinghamshire XXXII.SE (c. 1949; rev. 1938)
1" O.S. map Derby (Hills) Sheet 125 (1897; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
1" O.S. map Derby (Outline) Sheet 125 (1897; rev. 1895) (georeferenced)
1" O.S. map Nottingham (1960; surveyed 1958) (georeferenced)
½" Bartholomew map Derby & Nottingham Sheet 13 (1902) (georeferenced)
½" Bartholomew map Peak District – Great Britain Sheet 29 (1943) (georeferenced)
1:25,000 O.S. map SK54 (1951; surveyed 1938-50) (georeferenced)
1:1 million–1:10K (1900s) (georeferenced)
1:1m to 1:63K (1920s-1940s) (georeferenced)

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 === Gazetteers ===