Bedale
Bedale is a market community 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 kilometres) south-west of the county town of Northallerton. It was initially in Richmondshire as well as listed in the Domesday Book as part of Catterick wapentake, which was additionally known as Hangshire (so named from Hang Bank in Finghall and because of the many gallows used to carry out looting Scots); it was split once again as well as Bedale stayed in East Hang. Bedale Beck is a tributary of the River Swale, which forms one of the Yorkshire Dales, with its predominance of agriculture and also its related little conventional professions, although tourism is progressively vital. An electoral ward of the very same name exists, which ward includes Aiskew parish and 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.