Editing Robin Hood (section)

===Nottinghamshire===
[[File:County Flag of Nottinghamshire.svg|thumb|Robin Hood has been depicted on Nottinghamshire's [[Flag of Nottinghamshire|county flag]] since 2011.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-13337196|title=Nottinghamshire flag design unveiled|date=9 May 2011|accessdate=1 November 2023|work=BBC News}}</ref>]]

Specific sites in the county of Nottinghamshire directly linked to the Robin Hood legend include [[Robin Hood's Well]], near Newstead Abbey (within the boundaries of Sherwood Forest), the Church of St. Mary in the village of [[Edwinstowe]] and most famously of all, the [[Major Oak]] also in the village of Edwinstowe.<ref name=EDC>{{cite web |url=http://www.edwinstowe.co.uk/robin_hood/index.htm |publisher=Edwinstowe Parish Council |title=Edwinstowe |access-date=2 August 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724193855/http://www.edwinstowe.co.uk/robin_hood/index.htm |archive-date=24 July 2009 }}</ref> The Major Oak, which resides in the heart of Sherwood Forest, is popularly believed to have been used by the Merry Men as a hide-out. Dendrologists have contradicted this claim by estimating the tree's true age at around eight hundred years; it would have been relatively a sapling in Robin's time, at best.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/360/where_to_go/sherwood_forest/major_oak_interior.shtml|title=BBC – Nottingham 360 Images – Where to go : Inside the Major Oak|publisher=BBC|access-date=21 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814054925/http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/360/where_to_go/sherwood_forest/major_oak_interior.shtml|archive-date=14 August 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>