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| Name | Bedale |
| Alt names | Bedale | source: from redirect |
| Type | Ancient parish, Civil parish |
| Coordinates | 54.283°N 1.583°W |
| Located in | North Riding of Yorkshire, England ( - 1974) |
| Also located in | North Yorkshire, England (1974 - ) | | Yorkshire, England |
| See also | Hang East Wapentake, North Riding of Yorkshire, England | early county division in which it was located | | Bedale Rural, North Riding of Yorkshire, England | rural district in which it was located 1894-1974 | | Hambleton District, North Yorkshire, England | administrative district covering Bedale since 1974 |
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Bedale (#3 on map) is a market town and a civil parish now in the district of Hambleton, North Yorkshire, England. Historically it was an ancient and ecclesiastical parish in the North Riding of Yorkshire. It is situated 34 miles (55 km) north of Leeds, 26 miles (42 km) southwest of Middlesbrough and 7 miles (11 km) southwest of the county town of Northallerton.
Bedale Beck is a tributary of the River Swale, which forms one of the Yorkshire Dales. The parish has predominantly agricultural with its related small traditional trades, although tourism is increasingly important.
Bedale is home to a small museum, numerous Georgian buildings (though many of them are much older and only look Georgian) and a railway station on the Wensleydale Railway, which runs to Redmire via Leyburn. The Thorp Perrow Arboretum lies nearby, as do the villages of Burneston (#4), Burrill (#5), Cowling (#5), Exelby (#10) and Firby (#11). A population of 3,156 was recorded for Bedale (with Exelby) in the UK census of 2011.
Bedale is 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 marauders from Scotland). Catterick Wapentake was split and Bedale became part of East Hang Wapentake.
Bedale was an ancient parish and responsible for the following townships in Hang East Wapentake: Aiskew (#1), Burrill with Cowling (#5), Crakehall (#8), Firby (near Bedale) (#11), Langthorne (#18) and Rand Grange (#19). Sources for births, marriages and burials for these townships may be found under Bedale rather than with the township itself.
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History
Before the Harrying of the North of 1069-70 Bedale was held by Torpin (Thorfinn), a patronym retained by the infamous Dick Turpin. The parish church also dates from this time (as evidenced by its crypt), before significant remodelling. The original 9th century church escaped destruction in the Harrying of the North and was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086.
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Bedale. The sections titled "History" and "Churches" hold a great deal of information on the ownership of the local manors down through the centuries. Some of this is of genealogical interest.
Research Tips
- GENUKI on Bedale. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
- A Vision of Britain through Time on Bedale.
- The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Bedale provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
- The writer has visited Bedale and found it to be a very pretty and friendly village with a long High Street full of interesting shops and eating places--and a weekly market.
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