Robin Hood's Well (Outseats, Hathersage)

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Robin Hood's Well.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-08-30. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-03-02.

Robin Hood's Well, in Hathersage parish, is located near Longshaw Lodge, in a small wood and c. 500 m NNW of Little John's Well. The first known mention of this place-name occurs in an MS chart or map dated 1809.

Gazetteers

• Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 297, s.n. 'Robin Hood's Well'
• Northern Antiquarian: Holy Wells, Healing Springs & Spas.

Sources

• Cameron, Kenneth. The Place-Names of Derbyshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXVII-XXIX) (Cambridge, 1959), pt. I, p. 112.

Maps

• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XI.SW (1882; surveyed 1876-80)
• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XI.SW (1899; surveyed 1896-97)
• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XI.SW (1924; surveyed 1914)
• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XI (1924; surveyed 1914-15)
• 6" O.S. map Derbyshire XI.SW (c. 1933; surveyed 1914)
• 1" O.S. map Sheet 100 (1909).

Also see

• Hathersage place-name cluster
• Outseats place-name cluster
• Places named Robin Hood's Well.

Notes