Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Bedale. You may be able to find further references to Bedale in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
BEDALE a small town, a township, a parish, a subdistrict, and a district Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Bedale.

Place Type of entry Source
Aiskew township and village Bartholomew
AISKEW, or Askew a township Imperial
BURRELL-CUM-COWLING a township Imperial
Burrill-cum-Cowling township Bartholomew
Cowling hamlet Bartholomew
Crakehall township and railway station Bartholomew
Crakehill hamlet Bartholomew
Firby township Bartholomew
Hutton Hang township Bartholomew
Langthorne township Bartholomew
LANGTHORNE a township Imperial
Leeming, Little hamlet Bartholomew
LEEMING (LITTLE) a hamlet Imperial
Rands Grange township Bartholomew
RANDS-GRANGE a township Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Bedale within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire 3
William Camden Yorkshire: East and North Ridings 2

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Rand Grange 0 2
Crakehall 0 2
Aiskew 0 2
Firby 0 2
Cowling 0 2
Burrill 0 2
Langthorne 0 2
Leeming 0 2
Holtby 0 2
Exelby 0 2
Ainderby Mires 0 2
Hang 0 2
Thornton Watlass 0 2
Hackforth 0 2
Snape 1 2
Thirn 0 2
Newton le Willows 0 2
Scruton 0 2
Theakston 0 2
Great Fencote 0 3