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{{#display_map:{{#var:Coords}}~{{#replace:{{PAGENAME}}|&#39;|'}}|width=34%|enablefullscreen=yes}}<div class="pnMapLegend">Butt Hill or Robin Hood Butts, about midway between Bentham and Clapham in Craven.</div>
{{#display_map:{{#var:Coords}}~{{#replace:{{PAGENAME}}|&#39;|'}}|width=34%|enablefullscreen=yes}}<div class="pnMapLegend">Sherwood House probably owes its name to the proximity to a hill named Robin Hood Butts.</div>
[[File:{{#var:Image}}|500px|thumb|right|Butt Hill in the foreground, Ingleborough in the background / [https://m.geograph.org.uk/photo/172720 Karl and Ali, 21 May 2014, Creative Commons, via Geograph.]]]
[[File:{{#var:Image}}|500px|thumb|right|Sign reading 'Sherwood', front right; Sherwood House must be just beyond and below the hill / [https://m.geograph.org.uk/photo/172720 Michael Graham, 21 May 2006, Creative Commons, via Geograph.]]]
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<p id="byline">By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-09-05. Revised by {{#realname:{{REVISIONUSER}}}}, {{REVISIONYEAR}}-{{REVISIONMONTH}}-{{REVISIONDAY2}}.</p>
<p id="byline">By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-09-05. Revised by {{#realname:{{REVISIONUSER}}}}, {{REVISIONYEAR}}-{{REVISIONMONTH}}-{{REVISIONDAY2}}.</p>
But Hill, ''c.'' 3.6 km E of Bentham and ''c.'' 3.8 km W of Clapham, in Craven, also known as 'Robin Hood But', Robin Hood Butts or Robin Hoods's Butt, is probably a natural feature.
Sherwood House, situated ''c.'' 3.3 km E of Bentham and ''c.'' 4.2 km W of Clapham, Craven, was in existence and so named by the mid-19th century. The name may well have been suggested by the presence of a hill or mound named [[Robin Hood Butts (Clapham)|Robin Hood Butts]] in the vicinity.


The name 'Robin Hood Butts' is first recorded with reference to this locality in the 1738 parish register of Thornton-in-Lonsdale.<ref>{{:Chippingdall, William Harold 1931a}}. Not seen, but cf. {{:Smith, Albert Hugh 1961a}}, pt. VI, p. 241.</ref> 'Robin Hood But' is included on Jeffery's ''Map of Yorkshire'', prepared 1771 and published the following year (see Maps section and image gallery below). The hill or mound is probably a natural feature but was tentatively included, under the name 'Robin  Hood's  Butt', in a list of mottes which was published in 1889. It is noted there that it 'is a mound, but its character is doubtful'.<ref>{{:Clark, George T 1889a}}, see p. 207, where the mound is incorrectly included under Lancashire.</ref> Karl and Ali who took the photograph included below note that 'Butt Hill is a small, grassy hill with a scatter of mature trees which looks like it ought to have been a mediaeval motte earthwork. The map lettering does not suggest this, however[,] and it may simply be a natural feature such as a drumlin. Beyond, is Ingleborough (724m)'.<ref>[https://m.geograph.org.uk/photo/3989134 Geograph: SD7068 :: Butt Hill and Ingleborough.]</ref> On the early O.S. maps listed below, the site is included as Butt Hill, never Robin Hood Butts or similar.
Perhaps now more commonly known under the name Butt Hill, Robin Hood Butts are located less than 500 m northeast of Sherwood House. In view of this it seems likely that the latter name is at least indirectly connected with Robin Hood. Sherwood House is first recorded on a 6" O.S. map of the area published 1851, based on a survey made in 1846-47 (see Maps below). It is included (and named) in all the later maps listed below. IRHB is not sure if the name is still in use.


Formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the area where the hill is situated now belongs administratively to North Yorkshire.
Formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the area where the hill is situated now belongs administratively to North Yorkshire.
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== Maps ==
== Maps ==
* {{:Jefferys, Thomas 1772a}}, sheet 1, southwest tile
** [https://huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Jefferys%27_Map_of_Yorkshire_(1771)_-_sheet_1#customview=-378.6875:66.5625:4 web edition.]
* [https://maps.nls.uk/view/125631832#zoom=4&lat=5697&lon=11091&layers=BT 25" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CXIII.9 (1894; surveyed 1893)]
* [https://maps.nls.uk/view/125631832#zoom=4&lat=5697&lon=11091&layers=BT 25" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CXIII.9 (1894; surveyed 1893)]
* [https://maps.nls.uk/view/125631835#zoom=5&lat=5373&lon=11577&layers=BT 25" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CXIII.9 (1909; rev. 1907)]
* [https://maps.nls.uk/view/125631835#zoom=5&lat=5373&lon=11577&layers=BT 25" O.S. map ''Yorkshire'' CXIII.9 (1909; rev. 1907)]
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== Gazetteers ==
== Gazetteers ==
* Not included in {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, pp. 293-311.
* Not included in {{:Dobson, Richard Barrie 1976a}}, pp. 293-311.
 
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== Sources ==
* {{:Chippingdall, William Harold 1931a}}. Not seen, but cf. A. H. Smith below
* {{:Clark, George T 1889a}}, see p. 207, where the mound is incorrectly included under Lancashire
* [https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=260a4038-6380-4b72-9d73-8e934f2e619f&resourceID=19191 Heritage Gateway: Historic England Research Records: Butt Hill.]
* {{:Smith, Albert Hugh 1961a}}, pt. VI, p. 241.
 
== Background ==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentham,_North_Yorkshire Wikipedia: Bentham, North Yorkshire.]
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geograph-172720-by-Michael-Graham.jpg|Track to Sherwood: on the road from Chesters Farm, Newby Moor / [https://m.geograph.org.uk/photo/172720 Michael Graham, 21 May 2006, Creative Commons, via Geograph.]
geograph-172720-by-Michael-Graham.jpg|Sign reading 'Sherwood', front right; Sherwood House must be just beyond and below the hill / [https://m.geograph.org.uk/photo/172720 Michael Graham, 21 May 2006, Creative Commons, via Geograph.]
 
sherwood-house-clapham-google-earth-street-view.jpg|Sherwood House is situated ''c.'' 450 m SE of Robin Hood Buyts (Clapham) / Google Earth.
 
 
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Latest revision as of 01:12, 30 May 2021

Locality
Coordinate 54.112092, -2.456002
Adm. div. West Riding of Yorkshire
Vicinity c. 3.3 km E of Bentham; c. 4.2 km W of Clapham
Type Building
Interest Robin Hood name
Status Extant?
First Record
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Sherwood House probably owes its name to the proximity to a hill named Robin Hood Butts.
Sign reading 'Sherwood', front right; Sherwood House must be just beyond and below the hill / Michael Graham, 21 May 2006, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-09-05. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-05-30.

Sherwood House, situated c. 3.3 km E of Bentham and c. 4.2 km W of Clapham, Craven, was in existence and so named by the mid-19th century. The name may well have been suggested by the presence of a hill or mound named Robin Hood Butts in the vicinity.

Perhaps now more commonly known under the name Butt Hill, Robin Hood Butts are located less than 500 m northeast of Sherwood House. In view of this it seems likely that the latter name is at least indirectly connected with Robin Hood. Sherwood House is first recorded on a 6" O.S. map of the area published 1851, based on a survey made in 1846-47 (see Maps below). It is included (and named) in all the later maps listed below. IRHB is not sure if the name is still in use.

Formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the area where the hill is situated now belongs administratively to North Yorkshire.

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