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The earliest known settlement in the Shirley area was at Berry Mound Camp at what is now Solihull Lodge, in the west of Shirley. This was the site of an Iron Age Hill Fort, which may have been the scene of a battle between the forces of King Alfred and besieged Danes [1] (and with archaeological evidence which would indicate defense of the site during this period).
The first clear reference to "rhymes of Robin Hood" is from the alliterative poem Piers Plowman, thought to have been composed in the 1370s, followed shortly afterwards by a quotation of a later common proverb, [5] "many men speak of Robin Hood and never shot his bow", [6] in Friar Daw's Reply (c. 1402) [7] and a complaint in Dives and Pauper ...
The school was opened on the site of the since closed Pitmaston Secondary School in 1988 and originally known as 'Robin Hood Junior & Infants School'. Although this official title remained until academy conversion in 2013, the school became widely known as 'Robin Hood Primary School' and used the tagline 'the school of the future for the ...
Wooden bridge over the Cole at Shirley, drawn in the 19th century by Samuel Rostill Lines.. The River Cole is a 25-mile-long (40-kilometre) river in the English Midlands.It rises on the lower slopes of Forhill, one of the south-western ramparts of the Birmingham Plateau, at Red Hill and flows south before flowing largely north-east across the plateau to enter the River Blythe below Coleshill ...
The Shire Country Park (grid reference) is a country park in the south of Birmingham, England, taking its name from Tolkien's The Shire.. It consists of the Millstream Way following the course of the River Cole from Yardley Wood to Small Heath and includes the following sites: Scribers Lane SINC, Trittiford Mill Pool, The Dingles, Chinn Brook Recreation Ground, Sarehole Mill Recreation Ground ...
[1] [2] The park includes two large indoor play centres, a farm and a water park. [2] Formerly known as Wonderland Adventure Park, in 2007 the park became part of Bendalls Leisure which also owns Twinlakes Theme Park in Melton Mowbray and Woodlands Family Theme Park in Devon. The name changed to Wheelgate Park together with redevelopment and ...
Richard at the Lee (also referred to as Rychard at the Lea and Sir Richard of Verysdale) is a major character in the early medieval ballads of Robin Hood, especially the lengthy ballad A Gest of Robyn Hode, and has reappeared in Robin Hood tales throughout the centuries. Sir Richard is said to have been a landowner, the lord of Verysdale.
Rhyl (/ r ɪ l /; Welsh: Y Rhyl, pronounced [ə ˈr̥ɨl]) is a seaside town and community in Denbighshire in Wales. The town lies on the coast of North Wales , at the mouth of the River Clwyd . To the west is Kinmel Bay and Towyn , to the east Prestatyn , and to the south-east Rhuddlan and St Asaph .