Bakewell is a small market community and also civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales area of Derbyshire, England, known for a neighborhood confection, Bakewell pudding. It pushes 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 vacationer attractions of Chatsworth House as well as Haddon Hall. Although there is proof of earlier settlements in the area, Bakewell itself was possibly established in Anglo Saxon times, when Bakewell remained in the Anglian kingdom of Mercia. The name Bakewell indicates a spring or stream of a male called 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 noted building, was founded in 920 as well as has a 9th-century cross in the cemetery. Today church was created in the 12th-- 13th centuries however was essentially rebuilt in the 1840s by William Flockton. By Norman times Bakewell had actually gotten some value: the town and also its church (having two clergymans) are pointed out in the Domesday Book as well as a motte as well as bailey castle was integrated in the 12th century. In the very early 14th-century, the vicar was terrorised by the Coterel gang, that evicted him and 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 created in the 13th century and is just one of the few surviving remnants of that duration. Another Grade I-listed bridge, Holme Bridge, was constructed in 1664 as well as crosses the Wye on the north-eastern borders of the community. A chalybeate spring was found and also a bathroom residence integrated in 1697. This brought about an 18th-century bid to establish Bakewell as a health facility town in the manner of Buxton. Building And Construction of Lumford Mill by Richard Arkwright in 1777 was complied with by the rebuilding of much of the community in the 19th century.
