Robin Hood's House (Extwistle)
Locality | |
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Coordinate | 53.8083, -2.1235 |
Adm. div. | Lancashire |
Vicinity | 4 mk SSE of Trawden; c. 400 m W of Black Clough Head |
Type | Building |
Interest | Robin Hood name |
Status | Extant |
First Record | 1848 |
A.k.a. | Robin Hoods House |
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-02-10. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.
The ruined Robin Hood's House in Extwistle, c. 400 meters west of Black Clough Head, is named after the nearby Robin Hood's Well or vice versa. The House is located eight or ten meters south-west of the (site of the) well.
Robin Hood's House is thus labelled on a 6" O.S. map published 1848 and based on a survey carried out in 1844 (see Maps below). It is included in O.S. maps published as late as 1912 and perhaps also in more recent ones. Dobson & Taylor list it as "a ruined farm on the edge of Widdop Moor".[1] On the early map, a sheep fold is shown close to the House. Mesolithic flints have been found in the area, "with a particular concentration around Robin Hood's House", where a few other archaeological objects have also been discovered, including a Bronze Age stone quern which unfortunately was subseqently broken up, the parts being reused and, it seems, subsequently lost.[2]
In 2005, John A. Clayton wrote the following excellent account of the House and the area in which it is situated:
Gazetteers
- Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 299 s.n. Robin Hood's House.
Sources
Maps
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire LVII.13 (1912; rev. 1909)
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire LVII.13 (1912; rev. 1909) (georeferenced)
- 25" O.S. map Lancashire LVII.13 (1893; surveyed 1892)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire LVII.SW (c. 1934; rev. 1909-10)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire LVII.SW (1915; rev. 1909-10) (georeferenced)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire LVII.SW (1915; rev. 1909-10)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire LVII.SW (1894; surveyed 1892)
- 6" O.S. map Lancashire LVII (1848; surveyed 1844).
Background
- Pollington, Mitchell. Delf Hill Wind Farm, Burnley, Lancashire: Archaeological Desk-Based Asssessment (York, ©2013), pp. 6, 7, and see further Appendix 1, entry Nos. 278-79, 283-88, 292.
Also see
Notes
- ↑ Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), p. 299 s.n. Robin Hood's House.
- ↑ Pollington, Mitchell. Delf Hill Wind Farm, Burnley, Lancashire: Archaeological Desk-Based Asssessment (York, ©2013), pp. 6, 7, and see further the unpaginated Appendix 1, entry Nos. 278-79, 283-88, 292.
- ↑ Barrowford and Pendle History: Pre-Historic Pendle: Inter-Ridgeways, by John A. Clayton. IRHB's ellipses (map grid references).