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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

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 21 12) 
placename:-  Robin Hood's Grave
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.

story:-  
It is said, that when the local people came to gather hazel nuts here, they always placed a stone on the cairn:-
"Robin Hood, Robin Hood, here lie thy bones,
Load me with nuts as I load thee with stones."


Robertson, Dawn & Koronka, Peter: 1992: Secrets and Legends of Old Westmorland: Pagan Press (Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria) &Cumbria CC (library service)

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