Robin Hood

[Homer55]

I live in a little town called Brighouse in west yorkshire and Robin Hood is supposed to be buried in Clifton which is a little village next door to us. I wondered how many other places he is supposed to buried around the UK.

[Octavius]

Even if we were certain of his existence, it is doubtful we could ever know where he truly was buried. The stories as we know them today are the various stanza of balladeers and story-tellers stretching back several hundred years. An amount of poetic creativity is to be expected. The grave monument has been shown to be a 17th c forgery, but that is not to say that the real stone might have been replaced....

I never hurt fair maid in all my time,
Nor at my end shall it be;
But give me my bent bow in my hand,
And a broad arrow I'll let flee;
And where this arrow is taken up,
There shall my grave digg�d be.

"Lay me a green sod under my head,
And another under my feet; p. 122
And lay my bent bow by my side,
Which was my music sweet;
And make my grave of gravel and green,
Which is most right and meet.

"Let me have length and breadth enough,
With a green sod under my head;
That they may say when I am dead,
Here lies bold Robin Hood."

These words they readily promised him,
Which did bold Robin please;
And there they buried bold Robin Hood,
Near to the fair Kirkl�ys.

[Homer55]

Near to the fair Kirkl�ys. Could this be "Kirklees" the district next to calderdale where i live?

[Octavius]

Well historically it refers more specifically to the priory (Kirklees Nunnery) that was on the site but destroyed during the dissolution and the site rebuilt with the new Kirklees Hall on the same spot.

The arrow was said to have been shot from the gatehouse of the priory which still exists but in ruins. The estate is private so you cannot go and view the grave, but the Three Nuns Inn at Cooper Bridge is the nearest thing most RH hunters generally get.

[dot.hawkes]

Oh my Aunt and Uncle lived at Brighouse, on the halifax Road, he had a firm on the industrial estate next to the M62 exit, it was called Lumb and Cornish.

[Homer55]

I live very near to halifax road, about 500 yards away. small world isnt it...dont remember the company though, must have been before my time.

[dot.hawkes]

well it was there when he died in 1992, they had some land just at the side of the motorway where they kept horses and they bought a big house at Blackley and lived there for a while, you can see it from the Ellend road, and then they moved to Thornton near Bradford, but when i was about 12 i went to stay with them in their bungalow at Brighouse. My uncle's steel works was on that industrial estate and he also did white lines in the road. ( His company not him personally)

[saxy_jag]

As we should all know, as Robin Hood lay dying, he asked for his bow and arrow to be brought to him so that he might shoot it for one last time.

As he drew the bow, he said to those gathered around, "wheresoe'er this arrow falls, there shall my mortal remains be laid to rest". With that, he let the arrow fly to its destination...

... they buried him on top of the wardrobe!

[Haggisdj]

lol saxy_jag