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Survey of English Place-Names

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Robin Hood's Grave

Other OS name in the Parish of Dewsbury

Etymology

, 1771 M , the reputed scene of the death of Robin Hood is Kirklees Park ( on the site cf. YAJ xxxvii, 105 ff ) ; cf. Robin Hood's Bower i, 226supra .