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Ever since I was a child, I've been fascinated by stories of Robin Hood and his merry men.

Did he really exist? Does it matter whether he really existed?

And it turns out that I share that fascination with Guy Hayward, who is co-founder of the British Pilgrimage Trust,

which encourages people to go on walks with spiritual purposes up and down the land.

And Guy runs a pilgrimage in search of Robin Hood from Sherwood Forest and ends up at Soverell Minster.

So he's going to take us on that walk today as we search for Robin Hood. I'm I'm I'm

I'm Guy, hello, and really lovely to see you on this sunny September day.

Where are we?

Well, we're just above Ollerton, near Sherwood Forest.

We're probably in where Sherwood Forest would have been.

And we're walking along the river Mound towards Robin Hood's Cave.

Because he was an outlaw, he would always be hiding from the bad

bureaucratic monsters like Sheriff of Nottingham, who always had his men going after him.

Because the thing is, forest law was in place. And forest law meant that you basically couldn't do anything you couldn't

take a rabbit let alone a deer and if you did you might have your hands chopped off or some horrific

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