Bedale
Bedale is a market town and also civil parish in the area 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 as well as 7 miles (11 km) south-west of the county town of Northallerton. It was originally in Richmondshire and also provided in the Domesday Book as part of Catterick wapentake, which was additionally referred to as Hangshire (so named from Hang Bank in Finghall and also as a result of the many gallows used to perform marauding Scots); it was divided once more and also Bedale stayed in East Hang. Bedale Beck is a tributary of the River Swale, which forms among the Yorkshire Dales, with its control of farming and its related small standard professions, although tourism is significantly crucial. An electoral ward of the same name exists, which ward includes Aiskew parish as well as had a complete population of 4,601 at the 2011 Census. In October 2018 the town was twinned with Azay-sur-Cher, a community in the Loire Valley in France.
