<Dt> List of places </Dt> <P> Robin Hood's Bay is a small fishing village and a bay located within the North York Moors National Park, five miles south of Whitby and 15 miles north of Scarborough on the coast of North Yorkshire, England . Bay Town, its local name, is in the ancient chapelry of Fylingdales in the wapentake of Whitby Strand . </P> <P> The origin of the name is uncertain, and it is doubtful if Robin Hood was ever in the vicinity . An English ballad and legend tell a story of Robin Hood encountering French pirates who came to pillage the fisherman's boats and the northeast coast . The pirates surrendered and Robin Hood returned the loot to the poor people in the village that is now called Robin Hood's Bay . </P> <P> By about 1000 the neighbouring hamlet of Raw and village of Thorpe (Fylingthorpe) in Fylingdales had been settled by Norwegians and Danes . After the Norman conquest in 1069 much land in Northern England, including Fylingdales, was laid waste . William the Conqueror gave Fylingdales to Tancred the Fleming who later sold it to the Abbot of Whitby . The settlements were about a mile inland at Raw but by about 1500 a settlement had grown up on the coast . "Robin Hoode Baye" was mentioned by Leland in 1536 who described it as, </P>

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