Bedale
Bedale is a market town and civil parish in the district of Hambleton, North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, it is located 34 miles (55 kilometres) north of Leeds, 26 miles (42 km) south-west of Middlesbrough and 7 miles (11 kilometres) south-west of the county town of Northallerton. It was originally in Richmondshire as well as detailed in the Domesday Book as part of Catterick wapentake, which was likewise known as Hangshire (so called from Hang Bank in Finghall and because of the many hangings used to perform looting Scots); it was split once more and Bedale continued to be in East Hang. Bedale Beck is a tributary of the River Swale, which creates among the Yorkshire Dales, with its control of agriculture and also its relevant little conventional professions, although tourism is significantly essential. An electoral ward of the very same name exists, which ward consists of Aiskew parish as well as had an overall population of 4,601 at the 2011 Census. In October 2018 the community was twinned with Azay-sur-Cher, a town in the Loire Valley in France.
