[1] It is a low hill, situated on the left side of Mdina Road in Qormi.
Between January 1947 and July 1978, Tal-Ħandaq was the site of the Royal Naval School Tal-Handaq.
The site re-opened as a new school in September 1981 as the Liceo Vassalli Junior Lyceum.
[2] In the 1980s, the Malta Environment and Planning Authority (MEPA) started to issue permissions for houses to be built.
Nowadays, although some residents and a few farms remain, the area has flourished with an extensive number of small businesses, the most common being panel beating and spray painting, stoneworks, steelworks and woodworks.