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, rivers and streams, towns, caves, limestone pavements, mountains, cities, historic buildings, hills, geological features, castles, old mines, country parks, parks, gardens and ancient sites.
Catrigg Force, Lockin Garth Force, Whitfield Gill Force, Slape Wath Waterfall, Mill Gill Force, Cotter Force, and Aysgill Force are some of Bedale best waterfalls to visit near Bedale.
There are a number of ruins near Bedale including Bolton Abbey, Byland Abbey, Norton Tower (ruin), Easby Abbey (ruin), Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), and Trig Point on Warrendale Knotts.
Don't miss Bolton Abbey, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, Culloden Tower, and Robin Hood's Well (Fountains)'s historic monuments if visiting the area around Bedale.
Hiking Areas to visit near Bedale include Deepdale, Cotterdale, Southerscales, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Swilla Glen, Baxenghyll Gorge, and Raven Ray.
Bedale's best nearby villages can be found at Pool-in-Wharfedale, Askrigg, Hardraw, West Burton, Bainbridge, Aysgarth, and Malham.
There are a several good rivers and streams in the Bedale area like Whitfield Beck, Mill Gill, Hardraw Beck, River Wharfe, and Walden Beck at West Burton.
The area around Bedale boasts some of the best towns including Hawes, Skipton, Grassington, Richmond, Middlesbrough, Harrogate, and Settle.
There are a number of caves near Bedale including Great Douk Cave, White Scar Cave, Yordas Cave, Gaping Gill, Janet's Cave, Horseshoe Cave, and Jubilee Cave.
Southerscales, Malham Cove, and Warrendale Knotts Limestone Pavement are some of Bedale best limestone pavements to visit near Bedale.
Ingleborough is one of Bedale's best, nearby mountains to visit in Bedale.
Don't miss York, and Ripon's cities if visiting the area around Bedale.
There are a number of historic buildings near Bedale including York Minster, Marton House, Norton Tower (ruin), Church of St Peter - Rylstone, Culloden Tower, and Beggar’s Bridge.
Hills to visit near Bedale include Addlebrough, Embsay Crag, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, Warrendale Knotts, Giggleswick Scar, Blua Crags, and Sugar Loaf Hill.
Don't miss Malham Cove, Grassington Lead Mines, and Brimham Rocks's geological features if visiting the area around Bedale.
There are a number of castles near Bedale including Skipton Castle, Richmond Castle, and Bolton Castle.
Grassington Lead Mines is a great place to visit close to Bedale if you like old mines.
The area around Bedale's best country parks can be found at Brimham Rocks.
There are a number of parks near Bedale including Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), and Studley Royal Water Garden.
Don't miss Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden's gardens if visiting the area around Bedale.
Schoolboys Tower, Jubilee Cave, and Victoria Cave are some of Bedale best ancient sites to visit near Bedale.
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:
