If he knew anything about the historical facts concerning Kirklees Priory he would know that there are many historical references to the famous outlaw ending his days at the nunnery and also that the nuns who lived there over a space of 400 years are also interred in what was then the consecrated grounds of the priory, now covered by Lady Armytage's modern villa built in the 1980s.
What does Mr Duffy imagine happened to all the dead nuns? Did they just miraculously float off up to heaven?
Furthermore local people often asked to be buried in the priory grounds and to have masses said for them by the nuns in those pre-Reformation times. The grave of one prioress, Elizabeth de Stainton, is still in existence – in lady Armytage's back garden!
Robin Hood and other outlaws, felons and, it is rumoured, the unbaptised babies of illicit liaisons, were buried on the hillside outside the consecrated grounds.
Maybe people can be excused from thinking Robin Hood is a myth and a joke from watching all the nonsensical films about him on TV. However there is a lot of real, documented history connecting him with our area.
Instead of making ill-founded and idiotic remarks about someone who fought tyranny and oppression we should, in Calderdale, be seeking to make his grave a memorial to those who stand up against evil.
Never has an example been needed more so than in our present world. Sadly it seems that the opposite is the case and we are still living in feudal times in Calderdale.

Barbara Green
(President, Yorkshire Robin
Hood Society)