WHITWELL, a parish in the hundred of ALSTOE,
county of RUTLAND, 4 miles (E.) from Oakham, con-
taining 112 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the
archdeaconry of Northampton, and diocese of Peterborough,
rated in the king's books at £5, and in the
patronage of Sir G. Noel Noel, Bart. The church is
dedicated to St. Michael. A small mound in the neighbourhood,
bearing the name of Robin Hood's Cave;
is supposed to have been a retreat of that celebrated
outlaw.