Place:Bishopdale, North Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Bishopdale is a civil parish and dale or open valley in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in North Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the south side of Wensleydale, and extends for some 6 miles (10 km) southwest from Aysgarth. The parish includes only the sparsely populated upper reaches of the dale, from the head of the dale as far downstream as Howesyke and Howgill Gill.

Prior to the nationwide municipal reorganization of 1974, Bishopdale was in the Aysgarth Rural District of the North Riding of Yorkshire from 1894. Historically it was in the ecclesiastical parish of Aysgarth in the wapentake of Hang West.

The civil parish of Bishopdale was a township of the ancient parish of Aysgarth, and became a separate civil parish in 1866. Since the North Riding of Yorkshire became North Yorkshire in 1974, Bishopsdale shares a grouped parish council (the Aysgarth & District Parish Council) with Aysgarth, Newbiggin near Aysgarth, Thoralby and Thornton Rust. The population of Bishopdale was estimated by the administration of the North Riding as 30 inhabitants in 2012.