A StoryTrek · Robin Hood

Sherwood Forest: The Outlaw’s Trail

In Paul Creswick’s 1917 retelling, Robin Hood rises from a yeoman’s son to captain of the greenwood. This trail follows him from the market square of Nottingham into the heart of Sherwood, and on to the quiet priory where his story ends. You walk it on your everyday walks, wherever you are.

Distance: 25 miles (40 km)
Waypoints: 8
Illustrated by: N. C. Wyeth

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The green cover of Paul Creswick’s Robin Hood, with N. C. Wyeth’s painting of Robin and his outlaws stepping out from the trees

IHow far is it from Nottingham into Sherwood Forest?

Twenty-five miles into the greenwood.

Creswick’s Sherwood exists only in legend, so StoryTrek imagines it as one connected landscape, arranging the novel’s most memorable scenes into a plausible 25-mile walk with 8 waypoints rather than tracing a real Nottinghamshire trail. Every walk, run, or treadmill session your phone records moves you along it.

How long the journey takes

You walk	You reach the end in
1 mile a day (2 km)	about 25 days
2 miles a day (3 km)	about 13 days
3 miles a day (5 km)	about 9 days
5 miles a day (8 km)	about 5 days

A 10,000-step day is roughly 4 to 5 miles, which gets you to the end in about 6 days.

A lady in a blue gown and red cloak riding a white horse through a sunlit forest beside a young man in a green cap, with a hooded rider behind and spearmen crossing a stream ahead, painted by N. C. Wyeth — One of N. C. Wyeth’s full-page color plates for Paul Creswick’s Robin Hood, 1917.

IIThe road ahead

From yeoman’s son to outlaw captain.

The trail begins in the market square of Nottingham and follows Robin into the heart of Sherwood, through his rise from a yeoman’s son to captain of the greenwood. It closes at the quiet priory where his story ends. For a longer ramble with Robin, Robin Hood: The Merry Adventures follows Howard Pyle’s book over 130 miles.

Each of the 8 waypoints carries one of N. C. Wyeth’s eight full-page color plates from the 1917 edition, paired with a moment from the story. Reach one, and the trail opens on to the next painting.

Walk it together

Start a company and bring a friend, a book club, or the office into the greenwood. Everyone walks their own miles, wherever they live, and the whole band heads for the priory at the trail’s end.

Take the outlaw’s trail

Nottingham to Sherwood,
on your own two feet.

Download StoryTrek, choose Sherwood Forest: The Outlaw’s Trail, and set off from Nottingham’s market square.