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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Baytown	Yorkshire	given to the fishing town of Robin Hood's Bay, Whitby par., North-Riding Yorkshire. See ROBIN HOOD'S BAY.	Bartholomew
  FOUNTAINS-ABBEY	Yorkshire	Robin Hood's well is in the neighbourhood; sculptures, commemorative of him are on a buttress of the Lady chapel; and a famous tradition respecting him says that a monk of the abbey encountered and overcame him, threw him into the Skell, and for a time held both him and a strong body of his archers at bay	Imperial
  FYLINGDALES	Yorkshire	Robin Hood's Bay, which has a post office under Whitby; also the hamlets of Fylingthorpe, Normanby, Ramsdale, Rowe, Parkgate	Imperial
  Glasgow	Lanarkshire Renfrewshire	Glasgow, the commercial and manufacturing capital of Scotland, and, in point of wealth, population, and importance, the second city of	Groome
  GLOUCESTER	Gloucestershire	GLOUCESTER , -popularly Gloster-a city and a district in Gloucestershire. The city stands on the river Severn, and on Ermine	Imperial
  HEREFORD	Herefordshire	HEREFORD , a city, a sub-district, and a district in Herefordshire; and a diocese partly also in Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Salop	Imperial
  NESS POINT	Yorkshire	NESS POINT , a headland on the coast of N. R. Yorkshire; on the N side of Robin Hood's bay.	Imperial
  Peak	Yorkshire	Peak , ry. sta., North-Riding Yorkshire, at S. end of Robin Hood's Bay, 8 miles SE. of Whitby.	Bartholomew
  PEAK	Yorkshire	Robin Hood's bay, 7½ miles S S E of Whitby. Extensive alum works are here. The adjacentheadland is called	Imperial
  Robin Hood's Bay	Yorkshire	Robin Hood's Bay , fishing town, Whitby par., North-Riding Yorkshire, on Robin Hood's Bay, 5½ miles 8E. of Whitby	Bartholomew
  ROBIN-HOOD'S-BAY	Yorkshire	ROBIN-HOOD'S-BAY , a small town in Fylingdales parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on a bay of its own name	Imperial
  Roslin	Midlothian	Robin Hood, the other Little John.' A body of them seem subsequently to have settled down in the neighbourhood, for in 1628 the privy council ordered the Gypsies to be expelled from Roslin, 'where they have a peaceable abode, as if they were lawful subjects., * Stank generally means a pool or a ditch. but in this and other places the meaning must be flat, perhaps even marshy, ground near a stream. Roslin Chapel stands to the SE of the village, on the brow of the high ground overlooking the glen of the North Esk. The eminence which it occupies	Groome
  Stoup Brow	Yorkshire	Yorkshire, at Robin Hood Bay, 7 miles SE. of Whithy; the cliff is 893 ft. high, and commands magnificent views.	Bartholomew
  Thorpe	Yorkshire	Thorpe , 1 mile W. of Robin Hood's Bay and 5 miles SE. of Whitby, North-Riding Yorkshire; P.O.	Bartholomew

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