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| Robin Hood's Grave, Crosby Ravensworth | ||
| Robin Hood's Grave | ||
| locality:- | Crosby Gill | |
| locality:- | Crosby Ravensworth Fell | |
| civil parish:- | Crosby Ravensworth (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | grave | |
| coordinates:- | NY61731068 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY6110 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY61 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 21 12) placename:- Robin Hood's Grave |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. |
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| story:- |
It is said, that when the local people came to gather hazel nuts here, they always
placed a stone on the cairn:- |
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| "Robin Hood, Robin Hood, here lie thy bones, Load me with nuts as I load thee with stones." |
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| Robertson, Dawn & Koronka, Peter: 1992: Secrets and Legends of Old Westmorland: Pagan
Press (Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria) &Cumbria CC (library service) |
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