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Bakewell
Bakewell is a small market community and also civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, understood for a local confection, Bakewell pudding. It rests on the River Wye, regarding 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 traveler destinations of Chatsworth House and Haddon Hall. Although there is proof of earlier negotiations in the location, Bakewell itself was probably established in Anglo Saxon times, when Bakewell remained in the Anglian kingdom of Mercia. The name Bakewell means a spring or stream of a guy 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 Parish Church, a Grade I listed structure, was founded in 920 and also has a 9th-century cross in the cemetery. Today church was created in the 12th-- 13th centuries however was basically rebuilt in the 1840s by William Flockton. By Norman times Bakewell had actually obtained some importance: the community and also its church (having two priests) are discussed in the Domesday Book as well as a motte as well as bailey castle was built in the 12th century. In the very early 14th-century, the vicar was terrorised by the Coterel gang, that evicted him and took the church's cash at the instigation of the canons of Lichfield Cathedral. A market was developed in 1254 as well as Bakewell developed as a trading centre. The Grade I-listed five-arched bridge over the River Wye was built in the 13th century as well as is just one of minority enduring remnants of that period. An additional 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 spring was found as well as a bath house built in 1697. This brought about an 18th-century bid to establish Bakewell as a day spa town like Buxton. Construction of Lumford Mill by Richard Arkwright in 1777 was complied with by the restoring of much of the community in the 19th century.