Bedale Leech House
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.Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bedale railway station and Bedale Hall.
Bedale railway station
Railway station
Photo: mark harrington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 under British Railways in 1954. It was re-opened as part of the heritage Wensleydale Railway in 2004. Bedale railway station is situated 330 feet east of Bedale Leech House.
Bedale Hall
Public building
Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bedale Hall is a Grade I listed Palladian-style country house in the town of Bedale, North Yorkshire, England. It is a large two-storey house constructed of brick and ashlar with a stone slate roof. Bedale Hall is situated 1,000 feet west of Bedale Leech House.
Church of St Gregory, Bedale
Church
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Church of St Gregory, Bedale is the parish church for the town of Bedale in North Yorkshire, England. It is the main church of the benefice of Bedale and Leeming and Thornton Watlass. Church of St Gregory, Bedale is situated 1,100 feet northwest of Bedale Leech House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bedale and Aiskew.
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.
Aiskew
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Kirkbridge
Hamlet
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crakehall is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England, approximately 2 miles west of Bedale. The village lies along the route of the A684 and is split into two parts by Bedale Beck, a tributary of the River Swale.
Bedale Leech House
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: leech livestck house in Bedale, North Yorkshire, England
- Categories: building, tourism, historic site, and historic building
- Location: Aiskew, Hambleton, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.28919° or 54° 17′ 21″ northLongitude
-1.5896° or 1° 35′ 23″ westOpen location code
9C6W7CQ6+M5OpenStreetMap ID
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building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=buildingOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q28035340
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