Lovers' Leap
Site details
- Status
- Designated
- Date
- 9 May 2002
- Category
- Other Natural Sites
- Parish
- St. Elizabeth
About this site
The area consists of a cliff with a drop of approximately 1,600 feet. The legend associated with the site is that during the days of enslavement, two young lovers used to meet secretly on the adjoining Yardley Chase Plantation. The owner wanted the female for himself and arranged to have her lover sold. Not wanting to be separated, the two, hand in hand, plunged to their death.
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