Words by Alden Carrow Welcome back to British Counties in Verse. Today, I want to take you somewhere quiet — the market town of Bedale, in North Yorkshire — and argue something a little bold: that this small place is not smaller than the world. It might even be larger. An artistic illustration of Bedale at dawn Provincialism vs. Parochialism The Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh once drew a sharp line between two words we tend to confuse. Provincialism, he said, always looks toward