Robin Hood's Well (High Park Wood, Moorgreen)
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Robin Hood's Well / [s.n.]. Robin Hood's Well, High Park Wood, Moorgreen (Peveril Series) ([s.l.], [s.d.]). Photographic postcard (b./w.). 87 x 139 mm; private collection]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-02-27. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-02-27.
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.[1]
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
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)
Background
Brief mention
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