Robin Hood Well (Mawdesley)
[[File:|thumb|right|500px|The now covered well is probably located in the area between the tufts of taller grass in the foreground / Google Earth Street View.]]
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-08-07. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-05-31.
Robin Hood Well in Mawdesley was located immediately east of Blue Stone Lane, c. 50 m south of the Robin Hood Inn.
The well was mentioned in a geological survey published in 1875.[1] Henry Taylor noted in a brief account of the well in 1899 that he was "told that a constant supply of beautiful water runs over from the top flagstone". However, some time between 1957 and 2015 it was reported "now disused and covered by a modern concrete slab. An old stone brough [read: trough] is lying nearby". Whereas Taylor "could not gather any local traditions" relating to it in 1899, in 1957 was noted a "local tradition that Robin Hood watered his horse here".[2]
Gazetteers
- Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 315-19.
Maps
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI.12 (c. 1894; rev. c. 1892-93). No Copy in NLS
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI.16 (1894; surveyed 1893).
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI.12 (1910; rev. 1908) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI.16 (1910; rev. 1908)
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI.12 (1928; rev. 1926)
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI.16 (1928; rev. 1926)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI (1847; surveyed 1845-46)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI.SE (1894; surveyed 1891-93)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI.SE (1911; rev. 1908) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI.SE (1911; rev. 1908)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire LXXVI.SE (1929; rev. 1926).
Discussion
- Hull, Edward; Dakyns, et al. The Geology of the Burnley Coalfield and of the Country around Clitheroe, Haslingden, and Todmorden (Memoirs of the Geological Survey, England and Wales) (London, 1875), p. 126.
- PastScape: Monument No. 42229.
- Taylor, Henry. 'The Ancient Crosses of Lancashire: The Hundred of Leyland', Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, vol. XVII (1899), pp. 1-31; see pp. 5, 13-14
- Taylor, Henry. The Ancient Crosses and Holy Wells of Lancashire, with Notes on the Pre-Reformation Churches, Monastic Institutions, and Superstitions of the County Palatine (Manchester, 1906); see pp. 39-40; not seen.
Notes
- ↑ Hull, Edward; Dakyns, et al. The Geology of the Burnley Coalfield and of the Country around Clitheroe, Haslingden, and Todmorden (Memoirs of the Geological Survey, England and Wales) (London, 1875), p. 126.
- ↑ Taylor, Henry. 'The Ancient Crosses of Lancashire: The Hundred of Leyland', Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, vol. XVII (1899), pp. 1-31; see p. 13; PastScape: Monument No. 42229.