Askern History
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Leisure & recreation - Barnsdale<br />
Forest<br />
<strong>Askern</strong> lies near the former Barnsdale<br />
Forest - used in medieval days as a<br />
popular hunting ground by the nobility -<br />
also haunt of the outlaw Robin Hood in<br />
early ballads.<br />
There have been many attempts to<br />
identify the ‘real’ Robin Hood, also the<br />
knight in ‘A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode’<br />
who was captured and later gave Robin<br />
Hood & his friends refuge in his castle.<br />
One possible candidate for the role of<br />
‘the gentlyll knyght, Syr Richard at the<br />
Lee’ is Richard Foliot (died 1299) who<br />
had lands in the <strong>Askern</strong> area (Norton &<br />
Fenwick) as well as Nottinghamshire.<br />
<strong>History</strong>
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