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St. James' Church was the HQ for the Royal Foresters. It was where they met to get their orders. It's also the setting for a popular Robin Hood story.

One day, Robin Hood is leaning against a tree and sees a happy young man. The next day the same man is miserable.

It turns out to be Alan-a-Dale; he was going to get married to his betrothed, Ellen, but she had been promised to a local Norman.

听Robin helps them out. Friar Tuck marries Alan-a-Dale and Ellen and they live happily ever after.

In St. James' Church, Robin Hood also makes a bow from a Yew Tree. It was a Celtic belief that the Yew Tree had the power over life and death.

Later scientists at the Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham proved that there's a chemical in the Yew Tree that can be used to kill cancer cells. Therefore in this sense the Celts were actually correct.

Blacke Dickon's tour of Robin Hood's county

One of the Sherwood Foresters, Blacke Dickon, takes us to Papplewick.

Blacke Dickon: "This is where the story of Robin Hood and Alan A Dale takes place - where Robin Hood steps in to smooth the path to true love."