Aiskew

Aiskew is a village in the civil parish of Aiskew and Leeming Bar, in North Yorkshire, England. The village is situated to the immediate north-east of Bedale and separated from it by Bedale Beck.

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Type: Village with 2,430 residents
Description: village in North Yorkshire, England, UK
Also known as: “Aiskew, North Yorkshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Mary and St Joseph’s Church and Bedale railway station.

St Mary and St Joseph’s Church

Church

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St Mary and St Joseph's Church is a Catholic parish church in Aiskew, a village near Bedale in North Yorkshire, in England. Catholic worship took place at Aiskew Grange from at least 1771, and a church was built in 1812.

Bedale railway station

Railway station

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Bedale railway station is on the Wensleydale Railway and serves the town of Bedale in North Yorkshire, England. The station was opened in 1855, and closed by British Railways in 1954. It was re-opened as part of the heritage Wensleydale Railway in 2004.

Bedale Leech House

Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.

This late Georgian Bedale Leech House in Bedale, North Yorkshire, England, is a unique example of a building constructed to keep live medicinal leeches healthy prior to their sale by the local apothecary to doctors and private individuals for the purpose of blood letting as a medical procedure to cure or prevent a variety of illnesses and diseases.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bedale and Leeming Bar.

Bedale

Town

Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Bedale, is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. Bedale Beck is a tributary of the River Swale, which forms one of the Yorkshire Dales.

Leeming Bar

Village

Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Leeming Bar is a village in the civil parish of Aiskew and Leeming Bar, in North Yorkshire, England. The village is situated on the original Great North Road before being bypassed.