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Bedale in York County England History and GeographyBEDALE, a parish partly in the wapentake of HALLIKELD, but chiefly in the eastern division of the wapentake of HANG, north riding of the county of YORK, comprising, in the former, the township of Langthorne, and in the latter, the market town of Bedale, the townships of Askew, Burrel with Cowling, Crakehall, and Firby, and the hamlet of Rands-grange, and containing 2631 inhabitants, of which number, 1137 are in the town of Bedale, 33½ miles (N.W.) from York, and 223 (N.N.W.) from London. This town, which is of prepossessing appearance, is pleasantly situated on the banks of a stream flowing into the river Swale near Gatesby, and consists of one principal street. The houses are, in general, of brick and irregularly built; the air is pure, and the neighbourhood, which is diligently cultivated, affords many pleasant walks and much picturesque scenery. The market is on Tuesday: the fairs are on Easter-Tuesday, Whit-Tuesday, and July 5th and 6th, for horses, horned cattle and sheep, and October 10th and 11th, and the last Monday but one before Christmasday, for cattle, sheep, hogs, and leather. Constables and other officers for the internal regulation of the town, are appointed at the court leet of the lord of the manor. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, rated in the king's books at £89. 4. 9½. H. Pierse, Esq. was patron in 1797. The church, dedicated to St. Gregory, is a spacious and venerable structure, in the early style of English architecture, with a square embattled tower crowned with pinnacles and of remarkable strength, having been used as a place of sccurity from the incursions of the Scots: within the church are several interesting monuments, one of which is to the memory of Brian Fitz-Alan, Lord Lieutenant of Scotland in the reign of Edward III., who resided here in a castle near the church, of which there are no remains. There are three places of worship for Methodists, and a Roman Catholic chapel. A free grammar school, supposed to have existed here prior to the dissolution of religious houses, was endowed by Queen Elizabeth, with £7. 11. 4. per annum, to which the Countess of Warwick added £13. 6. 8. per annum; it is now incorporated with the National school, to which is appropriated the produce of £100, bequeathed by William Heaton, in 1709, for preparing eight boys for the grammar school, for the future reestablishment of which, the old school-house in the church-yard is still kept in repair. An hospital for six aged men was founded by Dr. Samwaies, in 1691, and endowed with £55. 3. 2.; it is a neat stone building, containing six apartments, to each of which a garden, comprising half an acre, is allotted: there are also almshouses for three aged women, founded by Richard and Thomas Young, in 1667. Sir Christopher Wray, Lord Chief Justice of the court of Queen's Bench, in the reign of Elizabeth, was a native of this place. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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