Hero legend
Robin Hood's Bed
A bed on the moor.
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- What's there
- Gritstone outcrop and boulder
- Legend from
- Rochdale
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- Adventurous
The outlaw's stone bed.
Robin Hood's Bed is a huge millstone grit boulder on Blackstone Edge with a natural bed-shaped hollow on top. Legend says the outlaw slept there while his men kept guard. Another tale says no wind ever blows there. The name appears in Rishworth boundary records in 1836.