Bakewell

Bakewell is a small market metropolis and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, well known for the neighborhood confection Bakewell pudding. It is positioned on the River Wye, approximately thirteen miles southwest of Sheffield. In the 2011 census the civil parish of Bakewell had a population of 3,949. The metropolis is close to the traveler sights of Chatsworth House and Haddon Hall.

Although there's proof of earlier settlements inside the area, Bakewell itself turned into likely based in Anglo Saxon instances, while Bakewell changed into in the Anglian nation of Mercia. The call Bakewell method a spring or move of a person named Badeca and derives from this non-public name plus the Old English wella. In 949 it was Badecanwelle and within the 11th century Domesday Book it turned into Badequelle.

Bakewell Parish Church, a Grade I listed constructing, turned into founded in 920 and has a 9th-century cross in the churchyard. The present church turned into built inside the 12th and 13th centuries however changed into surely rebuilt within the 1840s via William Flockton. By Norman times Bakewell had received a few significance: the city and its church being referred to within the Domesday Book and a motte and bailey castle was constructed within the 12th century.