Bedale


	Map	Bedale - North Yorkshire dotpng
	Population	4530
	District	Hambleton
	Region	Yorkshire And The Humber
	County	North Yorkshire
	Ceremonial	North Yorkshire
	Traditional	North Yorkshire
	Constituency	Vale Of York <br>(due to move to Richmond by 2010 )
	PostalTown	BEDALE
	PostCode	DL8
	DiallingCode	01677
	GridReference	SE266883
	Euro	Yorkshire And The Humber
	Police	North Yorkshire Police

Bedale is a small Market Town and Civil Parish in the district of Hambleton , North Yorkshire , England , at the foot of Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales .

The post-Conquest town was founded by Scollandus, a Breton official in residence at Richmond Castle . This is the site of a Castle built in the reign of King Edward I Of England , by an illegitimate relation to the Earl Of Richmond ; Bryan FitzAlan, Baron of Bedale. Bryan was Lord-Lieutenant ( Viceroy ) of Scotland , for His Majesty the King of England And Wales , Edward the Longshanks. It is from Bryan that Edward was notable as Hammer of the Scots, for he was a chief baron amongst the others involved in the border battles, such as those with William Wallace . This Lord also built Askham Bryan in the city of York .

Bedale St. Gregory is the Parish church in the Church Of England in the Rural Deanery of Wensley within the Diocese Of Ripon And Leeds . Existing historic buildings include an Eighteenth Century Apothecary 's store for Leech es, an underground Ice House used for preserving food, and the Fourteenth Century Market Cross . Bedale is home to a small Museum , numerous Georgian buildings, and a Station on the Wensleydale Railway , which runs to Redmire via Leyburn . The Thorpe Perrow Arboretum lies nearby, as do the Village s of Burneston , Burrill-cum-Cowling , Exelby and Firby .

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