Bedale
Bedale is a market community and also civil parish in the district 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 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 called Hangshire (so named from Hang Bank in Finghall as well as due to the many hangings used to execute looting Scots); it was split once again and 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 farming as well as its related tiny conventional trades, although tourism is progressively essential. An electoral ward of the 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 town was twinned with Azay-sur-Cher, a community in the Loire Valley in France.
