- The Robin Hood stone at Calderstones was only named this relatively recently. Previously it was the 'Archer's Stone', and nothing to do with the story, just because of the scratch patterns on it. It is probably one of the originally Calder Stones moved by a farmer.
- Huntington exists, but was owned by the Church, not an Anglo Saxon Earl, and they don't give up property easily so wouldn't have handed it back to a noble.
- Chester has excellent records back to Roman times, and no mention of Robin Hood.
- I made it up.
- Cheshire longbowmen were famous in the 1200s, but only after about 1280, when the English first got mauled by the Welsh longbow archer.
- Liverpool was a fishing village and army port, and made next to nothing in taxes compared to anywhere else in 1207. It had only just been built and had seven streets and about as many actual houses.
- Any taxes they were would either have gone by sea (as it was a port), or North to Lancaster by Scotland Road, not through Warrington.
- Piers Plowman mentions Robin Hood and Radolf Earl of Chester, but as different stories.
- I made it up.
- It doesn't match any other early source, which puts a historical Robin in Yorkshire at Barndale, or refers to a generic highwayman ( The Robinhod).
- King John may have founded Liverpool, but his physical connection with the place is minimal. Robin Hood's is less.
- I made it up.
On a serious note, its good practice for me, to teach me not to bend the evidence to fit the thoeory, however much I might want to. Something I swear on Robin's stone I shall resist doing. Of course back in the swirling mists of time anything is possible, and it could all be co-incidentally true, if hugely improbably. But so could dragons and Liver Birds for all we'll ever know.