Bakewell is a little market community and also civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, understood for a regional confection, Bakewell pudding. It rests on the River Wye, concerning 13 miles (21 kilometres) south-west of Sheffield. In the 2011 census the civil parish of Bakewell had a population of 3,949. The town is close to the tourist destinations of Chatsworth House and Haddon Hall. Although there is proof of earlier settlements in the location, Bakewell itself was probably established in Anglo Saxon times, when Bakewell was in the Anglian kingdom of Mercia. The name Bakewell indicates a springtime or stream of a male named Badeca (or Beadeca) and also stems from this personal name plus the Old English wella. In 949 it was Badecanwelle and in the 11th century Domesday Book it was Badequelle. Bakewell Church Church, a Grade I provided structure, was founded in 920 as well as has a 9th-century cross in the cemetery. The present church was built in the 12th-- 13th centuries but was practically rebuilt in the 1840s by William Flockton. By Norman times Bakewell had actually gotten some significance: the town and also its church (having 2 clergymans) are stated in the Domesday Book and a motte and also bailey castle was integrated in the 12th century. In the very early 14th-century, the vicar was terrorised by the Coterel gang, who 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 constructed in the 13th century and also is one of the few surviving residues of that period. One more Grade I-listed bridge, Holme Bridge, was built in 1664 and goes across the Wye on the north-eastern borders of the community. A chalybeate springtime was discovered and also a bathroom home constructed in 1697. This led to an 18th-century quote to develop Bakewell as a health club community in the manner of Buxton. Building of Lumford Mill by Richard Arkwright in 1777 was adhered to by the restoring of much of the town in the 19th century.
