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  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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