Bakewell is a little market town and also civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales area of Derbyshire, England, understood for a neighborhood confection, Bakewell pudding. It lies on the River Wye, concerning 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 vacationer destinations of Chatsworth House as well as Haddon Hall. Although there is proof of earlier settlements in the location, Bakewell itself was possibly founded in Anglo Saxon times, when Bakewell remained in the Anglian kingdom of Mercia. The name Bakewell means a spring or stream of a male named Badeca (or Beadeca) as well as derives from this personal name plus the Old English wella. In 949 it was Badecanwelle as well as in the 11th century Domesday Book it was Badequelle. Bakewell Parish Church, a Grade I listed building, was founded in 920 and has a 9th-century cross in the churchyard. The present church was built in the 12th-- 13th centuries yet was essentially rebuilt in the 1840s by William Flockton. By Norman times Bakewell had actually obtained some relevance: the town and also its church (having two priests) are pointed out in the Domesday Book and also a motte and bailey castle was built in the 12th century. In the early 14th-century, the vicar was terrorised by the Coterel gang, who evicted him as well as took the church's money at the instigation of the canons of Lichfield Cathedral. A market was developed in 1254 and also Bakewell established as a trading centre. The Grade I-listed five-arched bridge over the River Wye was constructed in the 13th century and is just one of the few surviving remnants of that period. One more Grade I-listed bridge, Holme Bridge, was constructed in 1664 and crosses the Wye on the north-eastern outskirts of the town. A chalybeate spring was found as well as a bath home constructed in 1697. This brought about an 18th-century bid to develop Bakewell as a medical spa town in the manner of Buxton. Building And Construction of Lumford Mill by Richard Arkwright in 1777 was adhered to by the restoring of much of the town in the 19th century.