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 km) north of Leeds, 26 miles (42 kilometres) south-west of Middlesbrough and also 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 called Hangshire (so called from Hang Bank in Finghall as well as as a result of the many gallows made use of to implement looting Scots); it was split again as well as Bedale remained in East Hang. Bedale Beck is a tributary of the River Swale, which creates among the Yorkshire Dales, with its predominance of agriculture and its related small traditional trades, although tourism is significantly essential. A selecting ward of the exact same name exists, which ward consists of Aiskew parish and also had a total 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.
