A dying Robin Hood is said to have fired his final arrow out into the meadows before being buried, at his request, at the very spot where it landed.

But the alleged resting place of the legendary outlaw could be swallowed by concrete after being earmarked as the site for a sprawling industrial estate.

Folklore suggests that Robin Hood died at Kirklees Priory, West Yorkshire, where he fled after leaving the safety of Sherwood Forest to be healed by nuns under the care of the Prioress, Elizabeth de Staynton.

Now, Kirklees Council has drawn up plans to build on the land, angering local experts and historians.

The grass and trees where Robin’s arrow landed could disappear under “a sea” of huge steel warehouses, they warned.

Robert Bamforth, from the Campaign to Protect Rural England, said bureaucrats were sacrificing the area’s tourism potential.

“Everyone locally believes that is where Robin Hood died and no one has ever challenged that legend – not even Nottingham,” he said.