James Bond author Ian Fleming famously wrote in Goldfinger, that once is happenstance, twice is coincidence and thrice is enemy action. When Historian Robert Chasterlaine looked at the cluster of three key Robin Hood related events in the same Yorkshire West Riding district, he knew that he was onto something. The first event was the Yorkshire hamlet of Loxley in Plompton, Loxley being the reputed birthplace of Robin Hood in the ballads. The next event was the neighbouring village of Plompton, the site of Plompton Park, mentioned in numerous Robin Hood ballads. The clincher was the neighbouring village of Goldborough, the home of William of Goldborough named on the Grave of Robin Hood at Kirklees. In all the various suggested locations of Robin Hood's birthplace and activities in Nottinghamshire (Sherwood Forest), Sheffield, Derbyshire or elsewhere did such a cluster of named locations and individuals come together. When he then discovered that William of Goldsborough was the brother in law of a Yorkshire Yeoman forester named Robert whose land had been seized by a baron loyal to King John was then outlawed and accused of robbery, he knew was deep in the heart of the Robin Hood secret.

Robin Hood is the most famous Englishman who ever lived. The World's Greatest Outlaw. The Greatest Yorkshireman wrongly known for activities in Nottinghamshire. During his life he was outlawed and hunted by the Crown before being pardoned and befriended by the King of England. Now in 2025 Historian Robert Chasterlaine has broken the Robin Hood Code which for 800 years has hidden Robin's real identity firstly from the Sherriff of Nottingham (and Yorkshire) and then an army of Historians and researchers.