IT has struck me, having read more than 200 of my dad’s archived columns, that there are numerous tales in folklore that follow a similar theme. Villages across the land claim stories of dashing local heroes overcoming giants and monsters, and this week, in his column from July 4, 1981, Dad recounts one I had not read before called The Giant of Sessay. Sessay lies about four miles south of Thirsk in the district of Hambleton, and in the 15th Century, when this story was set, the manor of Sessay was owned by the rich and powerful Darrell family. The substantial manor had ended up in the hands of Lady Joan Darrell after the rest of her family had passed away.
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