Handale
Hamlet in North Yorkshire, England
54°31′52″N 0°52′48″W / 54.531°N 0.880°W / 54.531; -0.880
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 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
- Handale Priory
References
- ^ Clarke, Stephen Reynolds (1828). The New Yorkshire Gazetteer, Or Topographical Dictionary. H. Teesdale & Company. p. 107.
- ^ "94" (Map). Whitby & Esk Dale. 1:50,000. Landranger. Ordnance Survey. 2016. ISBN 9780319261927.
- ^ "Houses of Cistercians nuns: Priory of Handale | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
- ^ "Handale Priory, Scaw and the Serpent - Mysterious Britain & Ireland". Mysterious Britain & Ireland. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
External links
Media related to Handale at Wikimedia Commons
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