Paradise Wood

Paradise Wood is a forest in Rand Grange, Hambleton, England. Paradise Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Kirkbridge, as well as near the village Great Crakehall.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bedale Leech House and Bedale Hall.

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.

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 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 under British Railways in 1954. It was re-opened as part of the heritage Wensleydale Railway in 2004.

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

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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.