According to local legend the real Maid Marian was a girl from Blidworth Village. Other stories say she only stayed there, in a house on a hill, opposite the Black Bull Pub, during the night before her marriage to Robin Hood. In reality the Black Bull is not on a hill. So my photograph depicts a spot up the hill from the pub, almost opposite the church where Will Scarlet was buried.
On her wedding day, Will Scarlet, also thought to have been a Blidworth man, is said to have escorted Marian from the house to Edwinstowe. There is also a story that Robin Hood's Outlaws used a nearby cave on the hillside in which to hide their stolen loot.
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