The origin of Robin Hood's Bay - its name

Robin Hood: a collection of all the ancient poems, songs, and ballads By Joseph Ritson, Joseph Frank, Thomas Bewick 1832

Robin-hoods-bay is both a bay and a village, on the coast of Yorkshire, between Whitby and Scarborough. It is mentioned by Leland as " a fischer tounlet of 20. bootes caullid Robyn Huddes bay, a dok or bosom of a mile yn length." (Itinerary, i. 53.) " When his robberies," says master Charlton, " became so numerous, and the outcries against him so loud, as almost to alarm the whole nation, parties of soldiers were sent down from London to apprehend him: and then it was, that fearing for his safety, he found it necessary to desert his usual haunts, and, retreating northward, to cross the moors that surrounded Whitby, [one side whereof happens, a little unfortunately, to lye open to the sea,] where, gaining the sea-coast, he always had in readiness near at hand some small fishing vessels, to which he could have refuge, if he found himself pursued; for in these, putting off to sea, he looked upon himself as quite secure, and held the whole power of the English nation at defiance. The chief place of his resort at these times, where his boats were generally laid up, was about six miles from Whitby, to which he communicated his name, and which is still called Robin Hoods bay. There he frequently went a fishing in the summer season, even when no enemy appeared to annoy him, and not far from that place he had buts or marks set up, where he used to exercise his men in shooting with the long-bow."



OTHER ARTICLES
• The fishermen and fisheries of Robin Hood's Bay in 1838
• Stories from Robin Hood's Bay and Whitby
• Sharks and big fish along the Robin Hood's Bay coast
• The Yorkshire smuggler - the smuggling of contraband
• Famous fishing families - the Whitby Storr family and the Leadleys
• Robin Hood's Bay - The Storm family website
• Shipbuilding at Scarborough - the wooden barques and schooners
• Primitive Methodism amongst the Scarborough Filey and Flamborough fishing communities
• The coastline and cliffs of Robin Hood's Bay
• The Allen and Truman Scarborough fishing families
• A sea shanty about a storm on the Scarborough coast
• An epic Lifeboat rescue in Robin Hoods bay and a terrible tragedy
• The national RNLI and the Scarborough lifeboat of 1861.
• Scarboroughs Old Town and its connection to the sea
• Coastal erosion in the 19th Century around the North Bay and Scarborough Castle area
• The Harwood and Bullamore fishing family history in Scarborough
• Tunny fishing in Scarborough in the 1930's
• Life in the Old Town of Scarborough and harbour - the fishing families
• Harwood Brierleys description of Scarborough harbour at the opening of the 20th century

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