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Modern SitesSite Name: Robin Hood Close and Little John Close
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.751 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Nearest Town: Whitby  Nearest Village: Stainsacre
Map Ref: NZ91710949
Latitude: 54.472498N  Longitude: 0.586337W
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Robin Hood Close and Little John Close
Robin Hood Close and Little John Close submitted by johndhunter : The stone nearest the camera is Liittle John Close, the one in the other field is Robin Hood Close . Photo was taken June 2013 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Modern Monoliths in Yorkshire (North)

From Click here for Pastscape Monument 29561: "North of the land from Whitby Laithes, a stone 1ft sqaure and 4ft high, stood in Robin Hood Closes, while south of the lane, in Little John Closes, was a second pillar 2.5ft high. Though traditionally associated with Robin Hood, the stones, which now stand by the fences of the same fields, were probably prehistoric."

Both stones have gone and have been replaced by modern identical cylindrical pillars one of which is inscribed Robin Hood Close, and the other Little John Close. Both stand by a hedgerow at NZ 91730951."

The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for these standing stones - see their entry for Robin Hood & Little John Stones, Whitby, North Yorkshire, which gives directions for finding these stones, together with an image of the 1852 OS map showing the location of the stones and descriptions and folklore from local reference material.
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Robin Hood Close and Little John Close
Robin Hood Close and Little John Close submitted by johndhunter : The stone nearest the camera is Little John Close, the one in the other field is Robin Hood Close.Whitby Abbey can be seen on the skyline in the distance. Photo was taken June 2013 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Robin Hood Close and Little John Close
Robin Hood Close and Little John Close submitted by Antonine : According to folklore, Robin and Little John both shot an arrow from Whitby Abbey to see how far they could shoot it. Robin’s fell on the north side of Stainsacre Lane, and Little John’s 100ft further on the south side of the lane. The original stones supposedly marked the spots where the arrows landed. Photo taken in 2011 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Robin Hood Close and Little John Close
Robin Hood Close and Little John Close submitted by Antonine : Photo taken in 2011 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Robin Hood Close and Little John Close
Robin Hood Close and Little John Close submitted by Antonine : Robin Hoods’s Close, 2011 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Robin Hood Close and Little John Close
Robin Hood Close and Little John Close submitted by Antonine : Little John’s Close, 2011

Robin Hood Close and Little John Close
Robin Hood Close and Little John Close submitted by Antonine

Robin Hood Close and Little John Close
Robin Hood Close and Little John Close submitted by Antonine : Robin Hood and Little John’s Close aka Robin Hood’s Pillars are 2 modern stones that represent 2 monoliths that once stood nearby. The earliest known record of the original site dates from around 1540. In 1817 Robin Hood’s Stone was about 4ft high and Little John’s about 2 1/2 ft high. This photo shows Little John’s Close with abbey behind, taken in 2011

Robin Hood Close and Little John Close
Robin Hood Close and Little John Close submitted by johndhunter : The stone known as Robin Hood Close, photo taken June 2013

Robin Hood Close and Little John Close
Robin Hood Close and Little John Close submitted by johndhunter : The stone known as Little John Close, photo taken June 2013

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Re: Robin Hood Close and Little John Close by johndhunter on Tuesday, 10 October 2017
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From my archives – not sure where I got this information from but whilst the fields in which the stones stand as shown on a modern OS map are known as Robin Hood Field and Little John Field, manuscripts dating from 1713 show that the fields where known as Little John Closes and Robin Hood Closes . This is why the stone in Robin Hoods Field has Robin Hood Close inscribed around the top and the stone in Little John Field has the name Little John Close inscribed around the top. Folklore has it that while Robin Hood and Little John where staying at Whitby Abbey they had an archery contest and the two stones mark where the arrows landed. The stones are not original they were erected in 1903 as replacements for the originals which were probably bronze age standing stones which had been removed. One was removed because it got in the way of farm machinery. The original stone in Robin Hood field was 1ft square and 4ft high whilst the one in Little John field was cylindrical and 2.5ft high. This stone was last seen in 1937 being used as a field roller at Summerfield Farm just over half a mile to the south .
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