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 situated 34 miles (55 kilometres) north of Leeds, 26 miles (42 kilometres) south-west of Middlesbrough and 7 miles (11 km) south-west of the county town of Northallerton. It was originally in Richmondshire and also detailed in the Domesday Book as part of Catterick wapentake, which was likewise known as Hangshire (so called from Hang Bank in Finghall as well as due to the many gallows used to implement marauding Scots); it was divided once again and Bedale continued to be in East Hang. Bedale Beck is a tributary of the River Swale, which develops one of the Yorkshire Dales, with its predominance of agriculture and its associated little conventional professions, although tourism is progressively important. A selecting ward of the exact 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 community was twinned with Azay-sur-Cher, a town in the Loire Valley in France.