Robin Hood's Well Clough (Whitworth)

Locality
Coordinate	53.6752, -2.2054
Adm. div.	Lancashire
Vicinity	On Jackson's Moor, c. 2 km NW of Whitworth
Type	Natural feature
Interest	Robin Hood name
Status	Extant
First Record	1851

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Robin Hood's Well Clough.

Robin Hood's Well Clough and surroundings. The red arrow indicates the approximate location of Robin Hood's Well / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-15. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.

Robin Hood's Well Clough on Jacksons' Moor above Whitworth is named after Robin Hood's Well. The name first appears on a 6" O.S. map published 1851, based on a survey carried out 1844-48. It is still in use.

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-11.

Maps

• O.S. maplet at Geograph
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXX.3 (1893; surveyed 1891)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXX.3 (1910; rev. 1908) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXX.3 (1910; rev. 1908)
• 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXX.3 (1929; rev. 1928)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXX (1851; surveyed 1844-48)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXX.NE (1894; surveyed 1891)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXX.NE (1912; rev. 1909) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXX.NE (1912; rev. 1909)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXX.NE (1931; rev. 1928)
• 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXX.NE (1947; rev. 1938).

Also see

• Jackson's Moor place-name cluster
• Places named Robin Hood's Well.

Notes

 Lancashire place-names 

 Place-names