Robin Hood Bottom (Bolton Percy)

Template:PnItemTop The former Robin Hood Bottom.

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The former Robin Hood Bottom.

[[File:|500px|right|thumb|The former Robin Hood Bottom / Google Earth Street View.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-07-19. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2020-08-11.

'Robin Hood Bottom' is listed as a field name in an 1843 tithe award for the township of Bolton Percy. Then a willow garth, this plot of land is now part of a field under cultivation. It is situated c. 725 m WNW of Bolton Percy and c. 175 m S of Oxton Lane.

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.

Sources

• Smith, A.H. The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXX-XXXVII) (Cambridge, 1961-63), pt. IV, p. 223; also see vol. VII, p. 291.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CCV.3 (1893; surveyed 1891)
• 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CCV.3 (1908; rev. 1906) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CCV.3 (1908; rev. 1906)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire 205 (1849; surveyed 1845–46)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCV.NE (1894; surveyed 1890–91)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCV.NE (1909; rev. 1906) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCV.NE (1909; rev. 1906)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCV.NE (1952; rev. 1950).

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