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The extensive forest of Loxley Chase extended as far south east as Nottinghamshire in the 12th century where it joined up with Sherwood Forest.

Loxley is one of the locations claimed as the birthplace of Robin Hood.

It is maintained that Robin of Locksley or Robert Locksley was born in the area in 1160 with John Harrison saying in his Exact and Perfect Survey and View of the Mannor of Sheffield of 1637, " Little Haggas Croft ( pasture ) wherein is ye founacion of a house or cottage where Robin Hood was borne.

" Little Haggas Croft was in the area of present day Normandale House on Rodney Hill.

Ballads from the High Middle Ages published in the Child Ballads such as A Gest of Robyn Hode, Robin Hood and the Monk, Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne, and Robin Hood and the Potter, as well as Sir Walter Scott's 1820 novel Ivanhoe all point to a possible South Yorkshire birth for the legend.