Handale

Handale is a hamlet,[1] that is 2 miles (3 km) south of Loftus, in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England.[2]

Handale

Handale was once the site of a Cistercian nunnery, founded in 1133.[3]

There is a legend that the woods in the area were once the haunt of a dragon known as the Handale Serpent. It is said that the dragon was slain by a man named Scaw, after whom Scaw Wood is named.[4]

See also

References
  1. Clarke, Stephen Reynolds (1828). The New Yorkshire Gazetteer, Or Topographical Dictionary. H. Teesdale & Company. p. 107.
  2. "94" (Map). Whitby & Esk Dale. 1:50,000. Landranger. Ordnance Survey. 2016. ISBN 9780319261927.
  3. "Houses of Cistercians nuns: Priory of Handale | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  4. "Handale Priory, Scaw and the Serpent - Mysterious Britain & Ireland". Mysterious Britain & Ireland. Retrieved 27 August 2014.

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