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| Robin Hood's Mill, North Yorkshire | ||
| Robin Hood's Mill | ||
| locality:- | Stainforth | |
| county:- | North Yorkshire | |
| locality type:- | swallow hole (?) | |
| coordinates:- | SD811676 (??) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD8167 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD86 | |
| references:- | Otley 1823 |
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| evidence:- | descriptive text:- Otley 1823 (8th edn 1849) placename:- Robin Hood's Mill |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Concise Description of the English Lakes, the
mountains in their vicinity, and the roads by which they may be
visited, with remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the
district, by Jonathan Otley, published by the author, Keswick,
Cumberland now Cumbria, by J Richardson, London, and by Arthur
Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, 1823; published 1823-49,
latterly as the Descriptive Guide to the English Lakes. goto sourcePage 207:- "..." "Proceeding northwards, ... After travelling within about a quarter of a mile from Little Stainforth, we come to an old door-" goto sourcePage 208:- "[door]way in the wall on the right side of the road, and passing through that, and over a stile in another wall which runs off at right angles, and then turning to the left for about fifty yards, there are a few scattered stones lying around a sort of natural drain. This is called 'Robin Hood's Mill;' and if the ear is put to the aperture, as closely as possible, a sound as of rumbling machinery is distinctly heard." |
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