Bedale

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Bedale (

wapentake, which was also known as Hangshire (named after Hang Bank in Finghall); 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.

History

Sword Pommel from the Bedale Hoard

Before the

Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age activity in the area.[4] The town was recorded as Bedell[3] or Bedhal and derives from 'Beda's Halh' which means the corner or piece of land of Beda.[5]

Under the Bretons of Richmond

After being doled out by Count

Battle of Falkirk (1298)[8] and the siege of Caerlaverock in July 1300.[9] Fitz Alan was involved in a fight with William Wallace that led to the death of a comrade-in-arms[10] and held the castles of Dundee and Forfar, as well as those in the Scottish Lowlands: Roxburgh Castle and Jedburgh.[11] This baron also built Killerby Castle and Askham Bryan in Yorkshire.[12]

Stapleton, Lovell and others

His co-heir

John Nevill, 3rd Baron Latymer (Catherine Parr's husband before Henry VIII) in Snape Castle.[16] This continued in the Rising of the North, with Henry VII's follower Simon Digby of Aiskew executed and replaced by Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, whose wife sold it to the native Sir William Theakston & John Jackson, after which it was resold to Cavalier Henry Peirse, whose descendants remain in town.[17] During the English Civil War, Philip Stapleton continued in much of the same anti-Tudor & Stuart sentiment as Guy Fawkes, whose statement, when asked by one of the Scottish lords what he had intended to do with so much gunpowder, Fawkes answered him, "To blow you Scotch beggars back to your own native mountains!"[18] Middleham Castle was subsequently ordered to be demolished by the Parliamentarians so that the Royalists could not take it again. However there is no documentary proof that this order was ever carried out.[19]

Lords of the Manor

His daughters, Agnes (born 1298) and Katherine (born 1300), were his co-heirs in his landed estates and manors. They were also co-heirs to his brother, Theobald.[24] Katherine (d. before 7 August 1328) married Sir John de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Rotherfield, KG (9 October 1300 – 1 September 1359).

The estate of Bedale and the Lordship of the Manor passed via the elder daughter, Agnes FitzAlan, whose marriage was granted on 10 May 1306 (when she was aged just 8) to Sir Miles de Stapleton of Carlton, Yorkshire, for his son:

  • Sir Gilbert de Stapleton, Knt., (d. before 23 June 1324) a younger son, whom she married before 15 December 1317,[25] in whose family Bedale remained for more than a century and was still in the possession of their great-great-grandson,
  • Sir Miles Stapleton, who died 30 September 1466.[26] His younger brother Brian Stapleton of Crispings (in Happisburgh) and Hasilden, Norfolk, died at about the same time and they both left only co-heiresses.[27]

The Lordship of Bedale Manor is currently held jointly by Lord Beaumont, heir of both FitzAlan moiety lines, but the Beresford-Peirse baronets retain distinction as having de facto possession of the manor, which was originally forfeited by Lovell's attainder and passed on to numerous instalments of government figures and subsequent real-estate purchasers, whether Digby of Warwickshire, Dudley of Nottinghamshire, native Theakston and Jackson, then Peirse, after which it passed by inheritance to Beresford of Derbyshire.[28][29][30]

Later history

In the 18th century Bedale was a centre of

horseracing. It was the place where races for three-year-olds were introduced in England (having previously being limited to older horses).[31]

Governance

An electoral ward of the same name exists, which includes Aiskew parish, with a total population of 4,601 at the 2011 Census.[32] In October 2018 the town was twinned with Azay-sur-Cher, a town in the Loire Valley in France.[33]

From 1974 to 2023 Bedale was part of the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire.

Bedale is part of the Richmond (Yorks) parliamentary constituency. The current Member of Parliament is Rishi Sunak, a Conservative, who is also the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.[34]

Churches

St Gregory's

Main article: Church of St Gregory, Bedale
St Gregory's Church, Bedale

The church retains some Catholic relics, although during the

Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, Fitz Hugh of Tanfield, John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond, Marmion, Arthur III, Duke of Brittany and Ascough/Aiskew.[38]

St Gregory's had a daughter church known as St Augustine's Church and Village Hall at Leeming Bar, no longer used for worship, and a Mission Chapel at Burrill.[39] There are other local Anglican chapels, such as St Gregory's at Crakehall and St Patrick's at Patrick Brompton. Two other parishes with churches joined in the benefice with St Gregory's are St John the Baptist (Leeming village) and St Mary the Virgin (Thornton Watlass).[37]

Others

There are Methodist chapels in Bedale, Leeming, Crakehall and Aiskew. Some buildings in the area also have their own private chapels, such as at Christ's Hospital in Firby.[2]

Transport

Looking into Bedale town from Aiskew across the level crossing. Bedale signal box is on the right and the bridge across Bedale Beck is just beyond the building centre left. The roadsign indicating a level crossing is incorrect – the barriers are clearly there!

Bedale lies on the

B6285 road, which runs south and south east from Bedale and connects with the A6055 road at Burneston.[40] The A684 road used to go through the town but a bypass was opened in August 2016, which means through traffic now avoids Leeming Bar, Aiskew and Bedale.[41] The town is only two miles (three kilometres) west of the A1(M) at Leeming Bar via the A684 or via the adjoining village of Aiskew.[42]

Bedale railway station

Bedale has a railway station on the preserved Wensleydale Railway. The station opened in 1855 and lasted almost a century before British Rail closed it in April 1954.[43] The line remained open for local goods until the 1980s and for the limestone quarry at Redmire until 1992.[44] The Ministry of Defence paid £750,000 to have the line upgraded and improved so that it could transfer heavy vehicles (mostly tanks) between Catterick Garrison and other MoD sites across the United Kingdom. These trains continue to run sporadically.[45]

The line was eventually reopened in 2003 as a heritage railway between Leeming Bar and Redmire.[46] The station is actually in Aiskew, since it lies east of Bedale Beck, which forms the boundary between the two.[47] The line was later extended to Scruton as well as to the west of Northallerton.

Work on making Bedale Beck navigable to barges down to the River Swale at Gatenby began in 1768 and resulted in an area at the south end of the town known as The Harbour. The plan was abandoned in 1855 when the railway was opened but the weir and some iron moorings still exist on the beck just south of the Bedale to Aiskew road bridge.[48] A public footpath runs along the Bedale side of the beck from the bridge for more than a mile, passing the leech house and the harbour.

Education

Bedale has three schools: Bedale Primary School[49] (which won the Drax Cup in 2012), Bedale High School[50] and Mowbray School.[51]

Economy and attractions

Bedale shops

Historic buildings include a unique 18th century

ice house used for preserving food and the 14th-century Grade I listed Bedale Market Cross.[52] Bedale is home to a small museum, numerous Georgian buildings[3] (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, Burrill, Cowling, Exelby and Firby.[53]

The town has many local shops, a Co-op Food supermarket,[54] pubs and eating places along its market place.[55] It holds a market every Tuesday on the cobbles that line the market place,[56] and there is a car-boot sale in the park every Saturday morning from April to October approximately.[57] It also has a leisure centre with full gym, swimming pool and astroturf sports pitches. Bedale Athletic Sports Association provides football, cricket, hockey, squash and tennis. Big Sheep Little Cow Farm is a petting zoo next to the railway line and Bedale Beck.[58]

Bedale Golf Club is on the northern edge of the town where the B6285 meets the A684 to Leyburn.[53] The golf club was founded in 1892. The course is a challenging 18 holes in wooded parkland.

Bedale also has a brass band with a 25-year history of providing musical education and entertainment for the local community.[59]

Media

Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC North East and Cumbria and ITV Tyne Tees. Television signals are received from the Bilsdale transmitter.[60]

Local radio stations are BBC Radio York on 104.3 FM, Greatest Hits Radio York & North Yorkshire on 103.5 FM and Dales Radio on 104.9 FM.

The town is served by the local newspapers, The Northern Echo and Darlington & Stockton Times.[61][62]

Filmography

The 1945 film

Sir Michael Redgrave as RAF pilots and Bedale was one of a number of locations used during filming.[64]

See also

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