Legend
Robin Hood's Grave
Where the last arrow fell, there lay me.
Private, don't visit
- What's there
- A fenced, railed old gravestone in woodland
- Legend from
- Robin Hood ballads; Leland (1530s)
- Best time
- Not visitable
- Tone
- Melancholy
Bleeding to death in a priory gatehouse, Robin loosed one last arrow to mark his grave.
Robin Hood's Grave is a monument in private woodland about 650 metres from the gatehouse of the former Kirklees Priory, where Robin is thought to have been staying when he died. In the ballads he falls ill and goes to his kinswoman, the prioress, who pretends to heal him by letting his blood and lets him bleed to death. A version first recorded in 1786 has him shoot an arrow from the window and ask Little John to bury him where it lands. John Leland mentioned the burial tradition in the 1530s. Wikipedia says workers once chipped the stone as a toothache cure, so it was walled and fenced.