Bedale
Bedale is a Town in the county of North Yorkshire.
There are great places to visit near Bedale including some great waterfalls, ruins, historic monuments, hiking areas, villages, towns, caves, mountains, rivers and streams, cities, hills, limestone pavements, historic buildings, castles, country parks, geological features, parks, gardens, old mines and ancient sites.
There are a several good waterfalls in the Bedale area like Catrigg Force, Lockin Garth Force, Gaping Gill, Clapdale Waterfalls, Aysgill Force, Great Douk Cave Waterfall, and Ingleton Waterfalls Trail.
Bedale's best nearby ruins can be found at Bolton Abbey, Byland Abbey, Easby Abbey (ruin), Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Rievaulx Abbey, Norton Tower (ruin), and Fountains Abbey (ruin).
The area around Bedale boasts some of the best historic monuments including Bolton Abbey, Culloden Tower, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, and Robin Hood's Well (Fountains).
Don't miss Deepdale, Nidderdale, Cotterdale, Southerscales, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Embsay Crag, and Brimham Rocks's hiking areas if visiting the area around Bedale.
Askrigg, West Burton, Bainbridge, Aysgarth, Levisham, Pool-in-Wharfedale, and Hardraw are some of Bedale best villages to visit near Bedale.
There are a number of towns near Bedale including Hawes, Skipton, Richmond, Middlesbrough, Harrogate, Settle, and Helmsley.
Great Douk Cave, Yordas Cave, Gaping Gill, White Scar Cave, Janet's Cave, Horseshoe Cave, and Jubilee Cave are great places to visit near Bedale if you like caves.
There are a number of mountains near to Bedale including Ingleborough.
Bedale has some unmissable rivers and streams nearby like River Wharfe, Whitfield Beck, Mill Gill, Walden Beck at West Burton, and Hardraw Beck.
Bedale's best nearby cities can be found at York, and Ripon.
Bedale's best nearby hills can be found at Addlebrough, Embsay Crag, Warrendale Knotts, Blua Crags, Sugar Loaf Hill, Attermire Scar, and Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross.
Southerscales, Malham Cove, and Warrendale Knotts Limestone Pavement are some of Bedale best limestone pavements to visit near Bedale.
There are a number of historic buildings near Bedale including York Minster, Culloden Tower, Marton House, Norton Tower (ruin), Church of St Peter - Rylstone, and Beggar’s Bridge.
Castles to visit near Bedale include Skipton Castle, Richmond Castle, and Bolton Castle.
The area close to Bedale boasts some of the best country parks including Brimham Rocks.
Bedale has some unmissable geological features nearby like Brimham Rocks, Malham Cove, and Grassington Lead Mines.
There are a number of parks near Bedale including Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), and Studley Royal Water Garden.
Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden is a great place to visit close to Bedale if you like gardens.
Don't miss Grassington Lead Mines's old mines if visiting the area around Bedale.
The area around Bedale boasts some of the best ancient sites including Jubilee Cave, Victoria Cave, and Schoolboys Tower.
Bedale History
There are some historic monuments around Bedale:
Places to see near Bedale
History of Bedale
His co-heir jure uxoris, Sir Gilbert de Stapleton of Carleton, Knt, was a conspirator in the assassination of Piers Gaveston. Sir Miles Stapleton was a founding Knight of the Order of the Garter, who fought at the Siege of Calais and at the Battle of Cracy. The Stapletons were “Lollard knights” and were Lords of the Manor of Bedale for generations. Bedale had traditionally been a Lancastrian area, until the Kingmaker, Clarence and Gloucester obtained Richmond and Middleham Castles. Following the Battle of Bosworth Field, Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell led the charge of insurgency in the Yorkist Stafford and Lovell Rebellion against Henry VII of England, attainted Earl of Richmond. The inhabitants of the region went on several recusancy strikes, such as the Pilgrimage of Grace and made trouble for John Nevill, 3rd Baron Latymer (Catherine Parr’s husband before Henry VIII) in Snape Castle. 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. 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!” 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. 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. 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 eldest 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:
