Robin Hood Hill (Berry Brow)

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Robin Hood Hill.

Robin Hood Hill, Berry Brow / Kirklees Image Archive.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-04. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-12-21.

The English Place-Name Society volume that covers the Huddersfield area lists Robin Hood Hill and Robin Hood House (under Almondbury parish) without any source reference, which usually indicates a modern date. Robin Hood Hill is the name of a hill with a c. 200 m long stretch of road off Woodhead Road. An adjacent, short and roughly L-shaped bit of road off Woodhead Road is named Hood Street. On Hood Street, one finds Robin Hood House.

Notes

Gazetteers

• Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 309.

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. 261.

Also see

• Berry Brow place-name cluster
• Places named Robin Hood's Hill.