Robin Hood (Wakefield)
Locality | |
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Coordinate | 53.741278, -1.508186 |
Adm. div. | West Riding of Yorkshire |
Vicinity | c. 2.5 km SW of Rothwell |
Type | Settlement |
Interest | Robin Hood name |
Status | Extant |
First Record | 1841 |
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-04-22.
According to the well-known place-name specialist A. H. Smith, the first mention of the hamlet or village named Robin Hood c. 2.5 km south-west of Rothwell is found in an 1841 MS Tithe Award.[1] Dobson & Taylor refer to an O.S. map from the same year.[2] IRHB has not yet been able to locate the tithe award, unless Smith was in fact referring to the map drawn in 1841 for the tithe award, dating from 1838-41, for the neighbouring township of Lofthouse in the parish of Rothwell. This includes 'Robin Hood Quarry', in the main map as well as an insert.[3] A quarry is of course not quite a village but it may have lent its name to the small community that came into being when, according to a (local) contributor to Wikipedia, a mine was opened in the mid-19th century and miners settled in the neighbourhood.[4] The mine closed in the 1960s, and the village is now a residential area. Several localities in the area are/were named after Robin Hood (the village and/or the outlaw).
Gazetteers
- Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 308, s.n. 'Robin Hood'.
Sources
- Smith, A.H. The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXX-XXXVII) (Cambridge, 1961-63), pt. II, p. 138.
Background
- 1841 tithe map for the township of Lofthouse in the Parish of Rothwell, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 43, sub-piece 268, Image 207 (£).
- Wikipedia: Robin Hood, West Yorkshire; brief but useful on the village, but the discussion of its alleged Robin Hood associations is misguided.
Also see
Notes
- ↑ Smith, A.H. The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXX-XXXVII) (Cambridge, 1961-63), pt. II, p. 138
- ↑ Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 308.
- ↑ 1841 tithe map for the township of Lofthouse in the Parish of Rothwell, online at the Genealogist.co.uk, Piece 43, sub-piece 268, Image 207 (£).
- ↑ Wikipedia: Robin Hood, West Yorkshire, apparently written by someone connected with the area.