Kirklees Priory Gate House, from the South

Slide 4 – From the character of the architecture, this front of the Gate House, would not be earlier than the time of Elizabeth. Yet the room, looking out to the south, though altered and re-cased, may be the successor, on the same spot, of that where Robin Hood is said to have died. Lying here, helpless and dying, he is described as seizing his horn and blowing “weak blasts three”. Little John, who was never far off, heard them:- “I fear my master is near dead He blows so wearily” And forthwith broke bar and lock, and finding Robin Hood in hopeless case, proposed to burn down the place by way of vengeance.