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Bedale
Bedale
is a
market town
and
civil parish
in the district of
Hambleton
,
North Yorkshire
, England.
Historically
part of the
North Riding of Yorkshire
, it is situated north of
Leeds
, south-west of
Middlesbrough
and south-west of the county town of
Northallerton
. It was originally in
Richmondshire
and listed in the
Domesday Book
as part of
Catterick
wapentake, which was also known as Hangshire (so named from Hang Bank in
Finghall
and because of the many
gallows
used to execute marauding
Scots
); it was split again and Bedale remained 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 its related small traditional trades, although tourism is increasingly important.
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