Yorkshire Dragons, Giants, and other Folk Tales.

Andrew Walsh is a Teaching Fellow and Librarian, but his favourite description of what he does comes from his daughter - "A librarian who teaches grown-ups how to play".

A collection of twenty folk or fairy tales from across Yorkshire. Including stories of dragons, giants, and other legendary happenings.Most are traditional stories, but a few are new stories based on scraps of traditional legends of the Huddersfield area.
The stories are:

Billy Biter and Filey Brigg

The Building of the Kirk at Heaton

The Crafty Ploughboy, or Yorkshire Bite

The Donkey, the Table, and the Stick

The Dragon of Loschy Wood

The Dragon of Wantley

The Drummer boy of Richmond

The Farndale Hob

The Giant of Dalton Mill

The Giant of Sessay

The Golden Cradle and Castle Hill

The Legend of Semerwater

The Marsden Cuckoo

The Miserly Judge or 'He had paid for it'

Potter Thompson

The Serpent of Handale

The Seven Sisters & Their Bad Neighbour

Upsall and its Crocks of Gold

Wadda of Mulgrave, and Bell, his wife

The Wicked Giant of Penhill