Robin Hood’s Grave
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.- Type: Memorial
- Description: monument in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, UK
- Inscription: “Hear Underneath dis laitl stean Laz robert earl of Huntingtun Ne’er arcir ver az hie sa geud An pipl Kauld im robin heud Sick utlawz az hi an iz men Vil england nivr si agen Obiit 24 Kal Dekembris 1247”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kirklees Hall and Kirklees Priory.
Kirklees Hall
Manor estate
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kirklees Hall is a 16th-century Grade I listed Jacobean hall, close to the English village of Clifton in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. The first evidence of a hall constructed at Kirklees was that of Sir Thomas Gargrave, who conveyed the property to the Pilkington family. Kirklees Hall is situated 2,700 feet northwest of Robin Hood’s Grave.
Kirklees Priory
Farm
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kirklees Priory was a Cistercian nunnery whose site is in the present-day Kirklees Park, Clifton near Brighouse, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It was originally in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Dewsbury. Kirklees Priory is situated 2,100 feet north of Robin Hood’s Grave.
St Thomas‘ Church
Church
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St Thomas‘ Church is situated 3,600 feet southwest of Robin Hood’s Grave.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bradley and Hartshead.
Bradley
Suburb
Photo: David Ward, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bradley is a district of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, 3 miles north-east of the town centre. It is generally just off the A62 Leeds Road and west of the River Colne and the Huddersfield Broad Canal.
Hartshead
Village
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hartshead is a village in the Kirklees district of West Yorkshire, England, 3.7 miles west of Dewsbury and near to Hartshead Moor. The village has pre-Norman Conquest origins; the Walton Cross is believed to be dated from the 11th century.
Beggarington
Hamlet
Beggarington, also known as Beggerington and Begerington is a hamlet consisting of a few houses about 0.4 miles north of Hartshead in Kirklees, West Yorkshire.
Robin Hood’s Grave
- Categories: monument, grave, and historic site
- Location: Calderdale, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.68973° or 53° 41′ 23″ northLongitude
-1.73734° or 1° 44′ 14″ westOpen location code
9C5WM7Q7+V3OpenStreetMap ID
node 8251004572OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialWikidata ID
Q16201652
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In Other Languages
“Robin Hood’s Grave” goes by many names.
- French: “tombe de Robin des Bois”
- French: “Tombe de Robin des Bois”
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