It was in a strategic position due to its location near a crossing of the River Trent ; and it was also known as a place of leisure being close to the royal hunting grounds at Tideswell, which was the “ Kings Larder ” in the Royal Forest of the Peak, and also the royal forests of Barnsdale and Sherwood Forest.

In ancient times this area was part of the Barnsdale Forest that, together with Sherwood Forest, made up the forest of the Robin Hood legends.

The stream may be so named as Robin Hood is reputed to have roamed in Barnsdale Forest, of which Highfields Wood was part.

This is consistent with the many Robin Hood legends suggesting that he roamed not only Sherwood Forest, but also Barnsdale Forest.

Prior to the industrial revolution, the area to the east was occupied by the inaccessible and waterlogged marshes of the Humberhead Levels, whilst to the west was the Barnsdale Forest, an area associated with the legend of Robin Hood and various outlaws and bandits who preyed upon travellers on the Great North Road.

During the medieval period that followed, Robin Hood was associated with Barnsdale Forest to the west whilst the nearby village of Campsall grew in importance, gaining a chartered market and Norman church.

The eastern boundary of the parish is marked by the Great North Road, and the parish lies in what was once the Barnsdale Forest.

In ancient times this area was part of the Barnsdale Forest that, together with Sherwood Forest, made up the forest of the Robin Hood legends.

Barnsdale, or Barnsdale Forest, is a relatively small area of South Yorkshire, England which has a rich history.

The small South Yorkshire village of Hampole is generally considered to lie within the dead centre of what was once the Barnsdale Forest area.

It is believed that at some point in the early medieval era, Barnsdale Forest was probably huge and may have covered most of South Yorkshire ( in the same manner as Sherwood Forest probably once covered most of Nottinghamshire ).

All that now exists of Barnsdale Forest is small gatherings of trees at the side of the A1 trunk road at Barnsdale Bar.

) there is Hanging Wood, which was also part of Barnsdale Forest.

In the earliest medieval ballads of Robin Hood, the ' bold outlaw ' is stated as having made Barnsdale Forest his abode and base of operations ( as an example, see A Gest of Robyn Hode ).

This is in direct contradiction of what many believe-that Robin Hood resided in Sherwood Forest, some fifty miles to the south of Barnsdale, in Nottinghamshire.

Red House is in the ( historic ) Barnsdale Forest area.

" However, the overall picture from the surviving early ballads and other early references suggest that Robin Hood may have been based in the Barnsdale area of what is now South Yorkshire ( which borders Nottinghamshire ).

While the Sheriff of Nottingham and the town itself appear in early ballads, and Sherwood is specifically mentioned in the early ballad Robin Hood and the Monk, certain of the original ballads ( even those with Nottingham references ) locate Robin on occasion in Barnsdale ( the area between Pontefract and Doncaster ), approximately fifty miles north of Nottingham, in the county of Yorkshire ; furthermore, it has been suggested that the ballads placed in this area are far more geographically specific and accurate.

Barnsdale is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Barnsdale historically falls within the West Riding of Yorkshire within Yorkshire.

The villages within Barnsdale are today part of the local government administration area South Yorkshire, the southern villages are more specifically now part of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, but the villages and hamlets of northern Barnsdale fall within the City of Wakefield metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire.

North of the junction the A1 ( no longer motorway class ) heads towards Barnsdale Bar and West Yorkshire.

At Barnsdale Bar there is a 1, 226 yard railway tunnel which although closed to passenger traffic in 1932 and completely closed in 1959 is in remarkable condition and is part of the former Hull and Barnsley Railway.

In the south of the parish towards Rutland Water is Barnsdale Gardens which were created by Geoff Hamilton of the BBC television series Gardeners ' World.

Barnsdale Bar is the site of the junction of the A1 ( the historic Great North Road ), the A639, and Wrangbrook Lane, Woodfield Road and Long Lane ( junction 38 of the A1 ).

There is also Robin Hood's Well, a small monument ( apparently designed by John Vanbrugh ) lying right next to the A1 between the Red House junction and Barnsdale Bar ; in between the villages of Skelbrooke and Burghwallis.

Situated by the A638, to the west of Barnsdale, it was once engraved with the outlaws ' name but is now derelict.

Perhaps the best known feature of modern-day Barnsdale, is the model village of Woodlands which lies about 4 miles south of Barnsdale Bar between the Roman Road and the historic Great North Road, here numbered as the A638 following the construction in 1960 of the A1 ( M ) Doncaster by-pass.

) The theory supplies Robin Hood with a wife, Matilda, thought to be the origin of Maid Marian, and Hunter also conjectured that the author of the Gest may have been the religious poet Richard Rolle ( 1290 – 1349 ), who lived in the village of Hampole in Barnsdale.

* Robin Hood: Bold Outlaw of Barnsdale and Sherwood, contains ballads, information on the development of the legend, and interviews with scholars and authors.

Barnsdale lies in the immediate vicinity north and north-west of Doncaster, and which was formerly forested and a place of royal hunts, and also renowned as a haunt of the outlaw Robin Hood in early ballads.

* Followed by two gardens, both called Barnsdale, owned by Geoff Hamilton in Rutland

* Half Moon Bay, new neighborhood under development along Cambrian Road, west of Greenbank, east of Highway 416, south of the Jock River and north of Barnsdale Road

South of Barnsdale Bar, the A1 follows the old Roman Road of Ermine Street-north of Barnsdale Bar the A639 follows the course of the Roman Road more closely whilst the A1 follows a more recent route.

As a temporary measure, accommodation was provided at ' Barnsdale ' in the vicinity of the present-day Secretariat.

This is reinforced for some by the alleged similarity of Locksley to the area of Loxley, South Yorkshire, in Sheffield, where in nearby Tideswell, which was the " Kings Larder " in the Royal Forest of the Peak, a record of the appearance of a " Robert de Lockesly " in court is found, dated 1245.

This is a particular problem in areas within easy commuting distance of large cities, such as the Peak District, the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales, and the New Forest and South Downs.

The region includes parts of three National parks ( all of the Lake District, and small parts of the Peak District and the Yorkshire Dales ) and three areas of Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( all of Arnside and Silverdale and the Solway Coast, and almost all of the Forest of Bowland ).

Its most well-known summer population is in the New Forest ( Hampshire ) but it is also found in the Tyne Valley ( Northumberland ), Wareham Forest ( Dorset ), Swanton Novers Great Wood ( Norfolk ), the Neath Valleys ( South Wales ), the Clumber Park area ( Nottinghamshire ), near Wykeham Forest ( North Yorkshire ), Haldon Forest Park ( Devon ) and elsewhere.

They are now extirpated in Lancashire, Derbyshire, Exmoor, East Yorkshire, New Forest, Nottinghamshire, Worcestershire, Quantock Hills, Cornwall, Dartmoor, Kent, Wiltshire and Surrey.

Scenes set in Sherwood Forest were filmed throughout England: Burnham Beeches in Buckinghamshire was used for the outlaws ' encampment, Aysgarth Falls in Yorkshire for the fight scene between Robin and Little John, and Hardraw Force in North Yorkshire was the location where Marian sees Robin bathing.

Ekwall thus describes the eastern boundary of Amounderness as " being formed by the fells on the Yorkshire border "; a description which places the ancient boundary firmly within the modern-day Forest of Bowland.

By the late 14th century, Bowland comprised a Royal Forest and a Liberty of ten manors spanning eight townships and four parishes and covered an area of almost on the historic borders of Lancashire and Yorkshire.

Barnoldswick ( colloquially known as Barlick ) is a town and civil parish within the West Craven area of the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England just outside the Yorkshire Dales National Park and the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

* Forest, North Yorkshire, England, UK

Certain parts of the Forest play host to relic meadow flora such as Meadow Foxtail, Smooth-stalked Meadowgrass, Yorkshire Fog, Red Clover, White Clover, Oxeye Daisy, Germander Speedwell and Meadow Saxifrage.

Fellwalking is specifically used to refer to hill or mountain walks in the Lake District, Lancashire, especially the Forest of Bowland and the Yorkshire Dales in Northern England as fell is the preferred term for both features in those parts of England.

To the south east are Blencathra, the Far Eastern Fells and the Helvellyn range ; behind these are vistas of the Yorkshire Dales and Forest of Bowland.

Stratford High School serves several neighborhoods, including Westchester, Sherwood Oaks, Nottingham Forest, Nottingham West, Wilchester, Gaywood, Wilchester West, Yorkshire, Memorial Townhomes, Village on Memorial Townhomes, Memorial Way, Rustling Pines, Memorial Plaza, and the SBISD portions of Thornwood and Ashford Forest.

The town lies on the River Wenning, west of the Yorkshire Dales National Park and on the northern edge of the Forest of Bowland.

* Forest of Bowland, Lancashire and Yorkshire

* Farndale Forest, Yorkshire

* Forest of Galtres, Yorkshire, disafforested 1629

* Knaresborough Forest, Yorkshire