Handale

Coordinates: 54°31′52″N 0°52′48″W / 54.531°N 0.880°W / 54.531; -0.880

Handale

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

Handale was once the site of a Cistercian nunnery, founded in 1133.[2]

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.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "94" (Map). Whitby & Esk Dale. 1:50,000. Landranger. Ordnance Survey. 2016. ISBN 9780319261927.
  2. ↑ "Houses of Cistercians nuns: Priory of Handale | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  3. ↑ "Handale Priory, Scaw and the Serpent - Mysterious Britain & Ireland". Mysterious Britain & Ireland. Retrieved 27 August 2014.

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