Bedale
Bedale is a market community and civil parish in the area of Hambleton, North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated 34 miles (55 kilometres) north of Leeds, 26 miles (42 km) south-west of Middlesbrough and 7 miles (11 km) south-west of the county town of Northallerton. It was originally in Richmondshire and noted in the Domesday Book as part of Catterick wapentake, which was additionally called Hangshire (so named from Hang Bank in Finghall and because of the many gallows used to perform marauding Scots); it was divided again and Bedale stayed in East Hang. Bedale Beck is a tributary of the River Swale, which develops one of the Yorkshire Dales, with its predominance of farming and its associated little traditional professions, although tourism is progressively important. A selecting ward of the very same name exists, which ward includes Aiskew parish and also had a complete 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.