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 km) north of Leeds, 26 miles (42 kilometres) south-west of Middlesbrough as well as 7 miles (11 kilometres) south-west of the county town of Northallerton. It was originally in Richmondshire and detailed in the Domesday Book as part of Catterick wapentake, which was additionally referred to as Hangshire (so called from Hang Bank in Finghall and also because of the many hangings made use of to perform marauding Scots); it was divided once more and Bedale stayed in East Hang. Bedale Beck is a tributary of the River Swale, which creates one of the Yorkshire Dales, with its control of farming as well as its associated little conventional professions, although tourism is progressively crucial. An electoral ward of the very same name exists, which ward includes Aiskew parish as well as had an overall 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.
