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The Wantley Dragon was reputed to live near Wharncliffe Chase. His slaying by More of More Hall prompted a 1685 satirical ballad. The story tells the tale of how More, of More Hall, slays a troublesome dragon which lives on Wharncliffe crags. The legend was mentioned by Sir Walter Scott in the opening chapter of Ivanhoe, "Here haunted of yore the fabulous Dragon of Wantley".

In 2009, professional dry stone waller, John Alston, recycled an existing old wall into a dry stone version of the dragon. The huge head, weighing a tonne and measuring 1.6 m, was chainsaw-sculpted by Mark Bell using elm from a Woodland Trust site at Beverley.