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Robin Hood's Grave is the name given to a monument in Kirklees Park Estate, West Yorkshire, England, near the now-ruined Kirklees Priory. It is alleged to be the burial place of English folk hero Robin Hood.
William Camden’s Britannia records, ‘having passed by Kirkley, once the seat of the religious Nunnes, and therefore the grave of Robin Hood’. The traditional site of Robin Hood’s grave at Kirklees estate in Yorkshire, has been the subject of controversy since the sixteenth century.
Robin Hood's Death, also known as Robin Hoode his Death, is an Early Modern English ballad of Robin Hood. It dates from at the latest the 17th century, and possibly originating earlier, making it one of the oldest existing tales of Robin Hood.
The alleged gravestone of Robin Hood's closest living companion at the time of his death, Little John, who was said to be with Robin on the day he died by treachery at the hands of the Abbess of Kirklees, is found in St. Michael's Church graveyard in Hathersage, Derbyshire, under a yew tree.
Robin Hood might be associated with Sherwood Forest and Nottingham. But the most famous outlaw in history – legend has it – died and was buried in Yorkshire. And you can visit the place where he bled to death (the Middle Ages were gruesome) and where he was 'buried', once a year.
The present monument to the south-east bearing the name Robin Hood s Grave where the outlaw is traditionally held to be resting in peace lies six hundred and fifty metres from where it is ...
Little John, the ironically named and trusted lieutenant to legendary rebel Robin Hood, is reportedly buried in the churchyard of Saint Michael’s in Hathersage, Derbyshire. Robin Hood first...
Find a Grave Memorial ID: 4108. Source citation. Folk Figure. Traditionally, the leader of a band of legendary English outlaws. Modern scholarship generally agrees that the origin of the Robin Hood legend lies somewhere in the eleventh or twelfth century probably in Yorkshire.
Robin Hood’s Grave 10. This is a reproduction of a plate that appears in the second volume of William Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum 1776 (Plate 99). The plate is taken from a drawing that is possibly a stylised copy of Dr. Johnston’s original by Stukeley.
The original is no longer there but in 1665 an antiquarian named Nathaniel Johnston made a drawing of it and that still survives. Today a crumbling nineteenth-century monument marks the spot, bearing an inscription that claims it to be the actual site of Robin Hood’s grave.