Robin Hood's Well (Higham)

From International Robin Hood Bibliography

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Site of Robin Hood's Well, Higham.

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Ford over the River Calder, near the site of Robin Hood's Well / Chris Heaton, 20 Jul. 2014, Creative Commons, via Geograph.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-23. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-05-31.

There was formerly a Robin Hood's Well a few meters north of the Calder, just south of the present Pendle Hall Farm.

The well is mentioned twice in a local ramblers' guide published in 1926 (see Allusions below). There is still a spring there, but its water no longer flows to the surface as the water is being pumped to some nearby locality, perhaps for use at Pendle Hall Farm or as water supply for sheep. A mere trickle flows from the area near the pump to the river. The well water was believed to be efficatious against certain ailments of the eye.[1] An unnamed well is indicated in some of the O.S. maps listed below. Template:PnItemQry

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