Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HANDALE

HANDALE, a place in Lofthouse parish, N. R. Yorkshire; 7½ miles E of Guisbrough. A small Benedictine nunnery was founded here, in 1133, by William Percy; had eight inmates at the dissolution; and was then given to Ambrose Beckwith.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a place"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Lofthouse CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Handale

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