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Actually the earliest sources of the Robin Hood legend, ballads dating before 1450, do not have Robin living in Sherwood Forest at all. They place him in Barnsdale Heath, about 50 miles north of Sherwood Forest. My novel The Robin Hood Chronicles follows the ballads in placing Robin in Barnsdale Heath. I identify the Robin of the ballads with a real-life Robyn who lived in Wakefield, near Barnsdale, and had been a follower of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. When Thomas was defeated by Edward II at the Battle of Boroughbridge in 1322, Edward II declared all of Thomas's soldiers were outlaws and sent his soldiers to hunt them down and kill them. I believe that is why Robin left his home in Wakefield and moved into Barnsdale Heath, where it would be difficult for Edward's soldiers to find him.

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