Place:Bedale, Yorkshire, England

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NameBedale
TypeTown
Coordinates54.283°N 1.583°W
Located inYorkshire, England
Also located inNorth Yorkshire, England    
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Bedale is a market town and civil parish in the district of Hambleton, North Yorkshire, England. 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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