Bedale
Bedale is a market community and civil parish in the district of Hambleton, North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, it is located 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 provided in the Domesday Book as part of Catterick wapentake, which was additionally known as Hangshire (so called from Hang Bank in Finghall and also because of the many gallows made use of to carry out marauding Scots); it was split again and also Bedale continued to be in East Hang. Bedale Beck is a tributary of the River Swale, which develops among the Yorkshire Dales, with its control of farming and its associated little typical trades, although tourism is increasingly essential. A selecting ward of the very same name exists, which ward includes Aiskew parish and 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.