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* [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/2ddaee76-c81d-4b2e-9feb-8d3fca9c97f0 National Archives: Wakefield, Robin Hood's Hill, Outwood, deeds and papers (before 1835)] (not seen). | |||
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* {{:Pickering, John 1905a}}, see p. 88. | * {{:Pickering, John 1905a}}, see p. 88. | ||
* {{:Smith, Albert Hugh 1961a}}, pt. II, p. 158. | * {{:Smith, Albert Hugh 1961a}}, pt. II, p. 158. |
Revision as of 09:45, 11 February 2021
Locality | |
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Coordinate | 53.7067, -1.5175 |
Adm. div. | West Riding of Yorkshire |
Vicinity | W of Outwood |
Type | Natural feature |
Interest | Robin Hood name |
Status | Defunct? |
First Record | 1657 |
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-04. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-02-11.
Robin Hood Hill was, and perhaps still is, the name of a locality west of Outwood, which is c. 3 km north of Wakefield. It is first recorded in 1657.[1] A. H. Smith takes a mention of "Robinhoodstreteclose" in the Wakefield Court Rolls for 1651 as the first mention of this locality,[2] but there is no evidence this did in fact refer to Robin Hood Hill. See Robin Hood Street Close (Outwood).
Robin Hood Hill is indicated, together with Robin Hood House (located on it), on the 1854 6" O.S. map of the area as well as on later versions and revisions, where Robin Hood Bridge is also found a little NE of these two localities.[3] From Bradford Road in the south to Robin Hood Bridge in the north, the ground rises smoothly from 66 to 92 m above sea level. The 1854 map indicates that both the hill and the road on it were then named Robin Hood Hill. The 1894 map has the hill indicated, but the road is not given a name. On subsequent revisions, from 1908 on, the hill is indicated and the road is named Potovens Lane.[4]
Records
1657 - Robin Hood Hill (Outwood)
Swearing. 3rd of June, '57. md, That Elizabeth the wife of Tho: Williams of Robbin Hood hill in Wakefeild Outt Wood, was conuicted before me for the p[ro]phane swearing of two Oathes upon the Oath of Will. Cassan, constable of Stanley.[5]
Gazetteers
MS sources
- National Archives: Wakefield, Robin Hood's Hill, Outwood, deeds and papers (before 1835) (not seen).
Printed sources
- Pickering, John; Lumb, G.D., ed. 'Justice's Note-Book of Captain John Pickering, 1656-60 [pt. I]', Publications of the Thoresby Society, vol. XI (1905), pp. 69-100, see p. 88.
- 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. 158.
Maps
- 25" O,S, map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.14 (c. 1894; surveyed c. 1892). No copy in NLS.
- 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.14 (1907; rev. 1905) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.14 (1907; rev. 1905)
- 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.14 (1914; rev. 1913)
- 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.14 (1942; rev. 1939)
- O.S. 6" map Yorkshire 233 (1854, surveyed 1848–51)
- O.S. 6" map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.SW (1894, surveyed 1892)
- 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.SW (1908; rev. 1906) (georeferenced)
- O.S. 6" map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.SW (1908, rev. 1906)
- O.S. 6" map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.SW (1932, rev. 1931–32)
- O.S. 6" map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.SW (1947, rev. 1939)
- O.S. 6" map Yorkshire CCXXXIII.SW (1949, rev. 1948).
Also see
Notes
- ↑ See 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. 158, and Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 309.
- ↑ 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. 158, where the date is given as 1650.
- ↑ See Maps section below.
- ↑ See Maps section below
- ↑ Pickering, John; Lumb, G.D., ed. 'Justice's Note-Book of Captain John Pickering, 1656-60 [pt. I]', Publications of the Thoresby Society, vol. XI (1905), pp. 69-100, p. 88.