legend of bold Robin

The legend of Robin Hood has been questioned and debated for many years by historians and Robin Hood experts. The fallacy that the haunts of Robin Hood are all in Nottinghamshire has been constantly debated to the detriment of Robin’s Yorkshire connections. Most Robin Hood historians now recognise that Robin was a Yorkshireman who was born in Wakefield ,lived in Barnsdale Forest and died at Kirklees Priory all in Yorkshire . The ruined priory gatehouse, where he was gruesomely murdered by the wicked prioress ,is still in existence but both sites are on private land and access almost impossible , other than by stealthy trespass , & BEWARE the Armitage estate gamekeepers are known to be trigger happy . Slightly tongue in cheek , as in one famous incident a shotgun went off knocking the front teeth out of the gamekeeper , who swears he never touched the trigger . So if the living dont get you , maybe the undead will .
Latent energies abound places with so much mortal history , not only the murder of
Englands most famous son . Some 1200 years earlier a garrison of Roman soldiers occupied the site . I find it somewhat extraordinary that such a well preserved historic earthworks should be in such obscurity especially since it is so well preserved , though the timbers are gone it takes hardly any imagination to visualise
the medeival fortifications , the ramparts , the horses . In feudal Britain the deaths of Roman invaders at the hands of the merciless tribes of Brigantes & Celts
was what the soldiers were paid for . It is thought some 50 romans graves are within
a cockstride of the more well known victorian monument . Add to this 30 generations of cisterecian nuns all buried very nearby , & you dont need to question the witnesses who see all manner of ghostly manifestations at any time of day .
Among the dense dark copiced foliage is a surprisingly diverse animal population ,
badgers , hares , stoats , weasels & pine martens share the space with ubiquitous rabbits , squirrels , rats , foxes , & such like . I was recently afforded the stunning sight of a goshawk closing in on its prey , this beautiful & rare bird of prey , so remeniscent of the falconry of old . I should point out I am a keen ornitholigist & know the difference between goshawk & the more numerous accipter nisis sparrowhawk . Also a magnificent bird , but somewhat smaller .

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Stories of paranormal phenomena have been reported,including ghosts,vampires and secret exorcisms. Druidic , Pagan , witcha , Shamen & even Yuri Geller have ritualised & sought enchantment at this most spiritual of places A book by Barbara Green SECRETS OF THE GRAVE lifts the lid off the story of Robin Hood’s death and some
of its amazing twentieth & twenty-first century consequences.