Bedale
Bedale is a market community as well as civil parish in the area of Hambleton, North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated 34 miles (55 km) north of Leeds, 26 miles (42 kilometres) south-west of Middlesbrough and also 7 miles (11 kilometres) south-west of the county town of Northallerton. It was originally in Richmondshire and listed in the Domesday Book as part of Catterick wapentake, which was likewise known as Hangshire (so named from Hang Bank in Finghall and due to the many gallows made use of to implement looting Scots); it was divided again as well as Bedale continued to be in East Hang. Bedale Beck is a tributary of the River Swale, which creates among the Yorkshire Dales, with its predominance of agriculture and also its associated tiny standard professions, although tourism is increasingly crucial. An electoral ward of the exact same name exists, which ward includes Aiskew parish and had an overall population of 4,601 at the 2011 Census. In October 2018 the community was twinned with Azay-sur-Cher, a community in the Loire Valley in France.