Bakewell
Bakewell is a tiny market town as well as civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, known for a local confection, Bakewell pudding. It rests on the River Wye, regarding 13 miles (21 km) south-west of Sheffield. In the 2011 census the civil parish of Bakewell had a population of 3,949. The community is close to the visitor destinations of Chatsworth House and also Haddon Hall. Although there is evidence of earlier negotiations in the location, Bakewell itself was possibly founded in Anglo Saxon times, when Bakewell was in the Anglian kingdom of Mercia. The name Bakewell means a springtime or stream of a guy named Badeca (or Beadeca) and also originates from this personal name plus the Old English wella. In 949 it was Badecanwelle and also in the 11th century Domesday Book it was Badequelle. Bakewell Parish Church, a Grade I detailed building, was founded in 920 and has a 9th-century cross in the churchyard. The present church was built in the 12th-- 13th centuries however was essentially rebuilt in the 1840s by William Flockton. By Norman times Bakewell had gained some significance: the community and its church (having two priests) are discussed in the Domesday Book and also a motte as well as bailey castle was integrated in the 12th century. In the early 14th-century, the vicar was terrorised by the Coterel gang, that evicted him as well as confiscated the church's money at the instigation of the canons of Lichfield Cathedral. A market was established in 1254 and Bakewell created as a trading centre. The Grade I-listed five-arched bridge over the River Wye was built in the 13th century and is one of the few making it through remnants of that period. An additional Grade I-listed bridge, Holme Bridge, was built in 1664 and also goes across the Wye on the north-eastern borders of the town. A chalybeate springtime was uncovered and a bathroom home built in 1697. This resulted in an 18th-century bid to create Bakewell as a medical spa town in the manner of Buxton. Building of Lumford Mill by Richard Arkwright in 1777 was followed by the restoring of much of the town in the 19th century.
