Handale Priory

Handale Priory (also called Grendale) was a priory of Cistercian nuns in Handale, North Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1133 by William, son of Roger de Percy, and was dissolved in 1539. A fishpond survives and a farmhouse built on the site in the 18th century may incorporate part of the priory.

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Handale

Handale is a hamlet, that is 2 miles (3 km) south of Loftus, in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. Handale was once the site of a Cistercian nunnery, founded in 1133. 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.

Liverton

Liverton is a village in the civil parish of Loftus, in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. Liverton Village is named in Domesday Book and was previously named Liureton, it is a rural village that has by and large retained its heritage as a farming community and in 1978 became protected by a conservation order. In 2011 an Area Appraisal was performed. The village is surrounded by a field system with Station Road B1366 running through the middle. The village can date its roots back to the 12th century, with evidence of this seen from the font, arch and doorway of St Michael's Church. There is further evidence of a medieval settlement in area. It is located 140 meters above sea level and is located on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors.

2.2 km

Liverton Mines

Liverton Mines is a village in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is surrounded by large, local towns Middlesbrough, Redcar, Guisborough and Whitby. The village has a shop (Charlie's), a post office, a fish and chip shop, church and a pub.

2.4 km

Pinkney and Gerrick Woods

Pinkney And Gerrick Woods (grid reference NZ708138) is a 62.7 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in North Yorkshire, England notified in 1954. SSSIs are designated by Natural England, formally English Nature, which uses the 1974–1996 county system. This means there is no grouping of SSSIs by Redcar and Cleveland unitary authority, or North Yorkshire which is the relevant ceremonial county. As such Pinkney and Gerrick Woods is one of 18 SSSIs in the Cleveland area of search.