Bakewell, Derbyshire - Youth Hostel - Dixon postcard c.1960s

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• Picture / Image:  Youth Hostel, Bakewell, Derbyshire 
• Publisher: J Arthur Dixon / YHA
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Bakewell is a small market town and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, known for a local confection, Bakewell pudding. It lies on the River Wye, about 13 miles (21 km) south-west of Sheffield. In the 2011 census the civil parish of Bakewell had a population of 3,949.[1] The town is close to the tourist attractions of Chatsworth House and Haddon Hall.

Although there is evidence of earlier settlements in the area, Bakewell itself was probably founded in Anglo Saxon times, when Bakewell was in the Anglian kingdom of Mercia. The name Bakewell means a spring or stream of a man named Badeca (or Beadeca[2]) and derives from this personal name plus the Old English wella.[3] In 949 it was Badecanwelle and in the 11th century Domesday Book it was Badequelle.[3] Bakewell Parish Church, a Grade I listed building, was founded in 920 and has a 9th-century cross in the churchyard. The present church was constructed in the 12th–13th centuries but was virtually rebuilt in the 1840s by William Flockton.[4] By Norman times Bakewell had gained some importance: the town and its church (having two priests) are mentioned in the Domesday Book and a motte and bailey castle was built in the 12th century.[5] In the early 14th-century, the vicar was terrorised by the Coterel gang, who evicted him and confiscated the church's money at the instigation of the canons of Lichfield Cathedral.[6]

A market was established in 1254 and Bakewell developed as a trading centre. The Grade I-listed five-arched bridge over the River Wye was constructed in the 13th century and is one of the few surviving remnants of that period.[7] Another Grade I-listed bridge, Holme Bridge, was built in 1664 and crosses the Wye on the north-eastern outskirts of the town.[8] A chalybeate spring was discovered and a bath house built in 1697. This led to an 18th-century bid to develop Bakewell as a spa town in the manner of Buxton. Construction of Lumford Mill by Richard Arkwright in 1777 was followed by the rebuilding of much of the town in the 19th century.