South Yorkshire Folk Tales

South Yorkshire Folk Tales gathers stories rooted in the county’s landscapes, communities and changing history. Its cast includes heroes and villains, giants and fairies, knights, highwaymen, dragons and boggarts, alongside accounts connected with forests, halls and roads.

The collection includes the traditions of Robin Hood of Barnsdale and the Dragon of Wantley, as well as reported happenings at Firbeck Hall and Roche Abbey. Other sections turn to Sheffield household tales, stories of South Yorkshire life and death, and material preserved in local archives, newspapers, folklore collections and oral testimony. Together, these accounts show how legend has attached itself to castles, abbeys, villages, industrial communities and the everyday experiences of the county’s people.