Robin Hood's Well (Pendle Hill)
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|Looking north-east from Pendle Hill; Robin Hood's Well must have been located somewhere on this slope / John Topping, 9 Jun. 2008, Creative Commons, via Geograph.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-23. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-05-31.
Around 1925 a well on the northern slope of Pendle Hill was referred to as 'Robin Hood's Well'. Its exact location is no longer known.
The well is mentioned twice by a writer of local ramblers' guides (see Allusions below). These passages suggest that the well was situated above Ravens Holme on the northern slope of the hill, on Downham Moor or the piece of land labelled "Great Coppy" on the O.S. maps listed below. Template:PnItemQry
Gazetteers
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.
Maps
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire XLVIII.9 (c. 1894; surveyed c. 1891). No Copy in NLS
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire XLVIII.9 (1912; rev. 1910) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire XLVIII.9 (1912; rev. 1910)
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire XLVIII.9 (1932; rev. 1930)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire XLVIII (1848; surveyed 1844)
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CLXXXIII.SW (1896; surveyed 1893)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire XLVIII.SW (1914; rev. 1910) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CLXXXIII.SW (1911; rev. 1907).
Brief mention
Notes
Looking north-east from Pendle Hill; Robin Hood's Well must have been located somewhere on this slope / John Topping, 9 Jun. 2008, Creative Commons, via Geograph.
Looking up at the northern slope of Pendle Hill / Google Earth Street View.
