Bakewell
Sign in to saveBakewell is a market town and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, known for Bakewell pudding. It lies on the River Wye, 15 miles (23 km) south-west of Sheffield. It is the largest settlement and only town within the boundaries of the Peak District National Park. At the 2011 census, the population of the civil parish was 3,949. It was estimated at 3,695 in 2019. The town is close to the tourist attractions of Chatsworth House and Haddon Hall.
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- Bakewell
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- England
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- East Midlands
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- 3,949
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- Bakewell parish highlighted within Derbyshire
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- BAKEWELL
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- DE
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- DE45
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- 01629
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- Derbyshire Dales
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- Bakewell
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- Derbyshire Dales
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- Derbyshire
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- Town and Civil Parish
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Bakewell is a market town and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, known for Bakewell pudding. It lies on the River Wye, 15 miles (23 km) south-west of Sheffield. It is the largest settlement and only town within the boundaries of the Peak District National Park. At the 2011 census, the population of the civil parish was 3,949. It was estimated at 3,695 in 2019. The town is close to the tourist attractions of Chatsworth House and Haddon Hall.
==History== Although there is evidence of earlier settlement in the area, Bakewell itself was probably founded in Anglo-Saxon times in the Anglian kingdom of Mercia. The name Bakewell means a spring or stream of a woman named Badeca or Beadeca, so deriving from a personal name with the Old English suffix wella. In 949, it was called Badecanwelle, and in the 1086 Domesday Book Badequelle. The Domesday Book listing stated that King Edward the Confessor held land here and there was a church and a mill.