Robin Hood Well (Low Hall Wood)

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Robin Hood Well.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-10. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-07-17.

This well is referred to in a 1773 MS source as "Robin Hoods Well".^[1] Dobson & Taylor,^[2] who provide the coordinates for this locality, note that the well is "[p]ossibly associated with Robin Hood's Bower and Moss". This is due to a misunderstanding of their source, A.H. Smith, who actually does not suggest that there is any connection between these localities beyond the fact that they are named after Robin Hood.^[3]Template:PnItemQry

Gazetteers

Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 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. I, pp. 226, 251-52; also see pt. VII, p. 73.
Hall, Thomas Walter. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Edmunds Collection Including Charters, Court-Rolls and Estreats Relating to Worsborough, Stainborough & Barnsley Near Sheffield Sheffield, 1924, inter pp. 196-214, pt.3, as cited in Smith.

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Notes

↑ Smith, A.H. The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXX-XXXVII) (Cambridge, 1961-63), pt. I, pp. 251-52.
↑ Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 311.
↑ Smith, op. cit. in discussing the Moss and Bower makes a few brief remarks concerning Robin Hood place-names in general. In his notices of other Robin Hood-related place-names he often refers to these general remarks, which are thus made to serve, as it were, as an introduction to the topic of Robin Hood-related place-names. See Smith, pt. I, pp. 251-52, and for instance pt. I, p. 226; pt. VII, p. 73.

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[1] Smith, A.H. The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire (English Place-Name Society, vols. XXX-XXXVII) (Cambridge, 1961-63), pt. I, pp. 251-52.

[2] Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 311.

[3] Smith, op. cit. in discussing the Moss and Bower makes a few brief remarks concerning Robin Hood place-names in general. In his notices of other Robin Hood-related place-names he often refers to these general remarks, which are thus made to serve, as it were, as an introduction to the topic of Robin Hood-related place-names. See Smith, pt. I, pp. 251-52, and for instance pt. I, p. 226; pt. VII, p. 73.

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