Robin Hood's 'grave' could be bulldozed and covered in concrete

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/25/robin-hoods-grave-could-bulldozed-covered-concrete/

"The tragedy is this land has not been disturbed for hundreds of years and looks just as it did centuries ago so who knows what has been preserved.

“If you have a Japanese tourist and you say to them 'Robin Hood died here and he shot his arrow over that warehouse' it doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.”

Max Rathwell, Chairman of Spen Valley Civic Society, said: “The whole plan is tragic and stunningly stupid. People are enraged. The whole idea is bonkers.

“We know how well preserved the land is because it is still exactly as Charlotte Bronte described it in Chapter 12 of Shirley.

“It is a treasure island in an industrial landscape and Robin Hood’s grave would be a focal point.

“If this crazy idea goes ahead it will devastate the area. Instead of woodland and meadows and fields of wheat and barley it will just be a sea of monstrous sheds.”

Barbara Green, 72, who founded the Yorkshire Robin Hood Society, said: “It really annoys me that the council has never shown the slightest interest in Robin’s grave.

“The Society has tried since the 1980s to get the folly restored and open to the public and every effort has failed.

A public inquiry is underway into the Kirklees Council Local Plan. The authority declined to comment.