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Welcome Personal service is the essence of Already famous for the wonderful shopping in Bakewell – whether it be and the Bakewell to in one of the many independent shops Tart, the town has a growing or at a stall on the busy Monday market. reputation as a ‘foodie paradise’.  As the only town in the A wealth of high quality shops sell National Park, Bakewell is the focus of specialities such as locally reared akewell shopping - with a wide range of speciality meats, handmade chocolates and shops and mouthwatering delis. real ice cream and cheeses from Take time to meander round the tiny courtyards and passages to discover dairy herds. With several n a beautiful setting on the banks of high quality antiques shops, an Aladdin’s cave of rare whiskies and several traditional pubs serving food,  lovely shops filled with gifts for the home. There is also a wide range plus award-winning restaurants the river Wye, Bakewell is an historic of outdoor clothing outlets to get you equipped for a walk in the and wide choice of cafes and bistros, market town at the heart of the Peak District surrounding hills. The Visitor Centre in the old market hall is also worth Bakewell offers a good choice National Park. Its mellow stone buildings, a visit for guidebooks and souvenirs of your visit. And don’t forget to cross of places to eat and drink. the bridge over the River Wye in the town centre to find more shops medieval arched bridge and little courtyards and places to eat at Rutland Mews and the Agricultural Business Centre. Puddings Galore… The origins of the Bakewell Pudding combine to create an atmosphere of great may go back centuries but it was the charm, with pleasant gardens and riverside hotel cook at the Rutland Arms who walks all adding to the scene. Don’t Miss... is credited with ‘inventing’ the recipe in about 1860. The story goes that she A thriving and popular town, the wide variety of high misread her instructions - instead of Bakewell Markets stirring the egg mixture into the pastry quality shops and wealth of cafés and restaurants attract Bakewell has held markets every Monday for at least 700 she spread it on top of the jam – creating local people and visitors alike throughout the year. years. The thriving stall market attracts locals and visitors a local delicacy which is much loved and Surrounded by the spectacular countryside of the alike to the bustling streets of the town. Up until the late widely available around the town today. , with excellent transport links, it 1990s sheep and cattle were also sold in the town centre, but now farmers from a wide area head to Bakewell to its modern livestock market across Buying Local… is an ideal base for exploring the surrounding area. the river in the Agricultural Business Centre. On Mondays and most Held on the last Saturday of the month Wednesdays, visitors can watch the sales in the theatre-like auction ring. at the Agricultural Business Centre, Bakewell’s farmers market is the second Bakewell Market Christmas Festivities biggest in the country with over 70 stalls. Mondays throughout the year www.bakewellonline.co.uk Many of the stallholders are local, Farmers Market Last Saturday of the month Fantastic Festivals... complemented by some speciality producers from further afield. www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk Delicious foods on sale include rare breeds of pork, ranges of Bakewell Food Festival April jams and preserves, smoked fish, Turkish food and chilli products. Well Dressings www.bakewellonline.co.uk Tel: 01629 813777 www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk/abc Last week in June Bakewell Baking Festival June www.bakewellonline.co.uk www.bakewellbakingfestival.co.uk From Breads to Beers… Bakewell Carnival Bakewell Music Festival August Bakewell’s own riverside cookery school offers First Saturday in July www.bakewellmusicfestival.com specialist courses in everything from bread (at end of Carnival Week) making to tapas, see www.hartingtons.com. www.bakewellcarnival.co.uk Peak District Walking Festival April www.visitpeakdistrict.com The town’s award-winning brewery offers brewery tours on a Wednesday afternoon, Bakewell Show Peak District Cycling Festival Sept First Wed & Thurs of August www.visitpeakdistrict.com/pdcf see www.thornbridgebrewery.co.uk. www.bakewellshow.org Bakewell – Get Active... Heart of the Peak District... Around Bakewell...

The Bakewell is situated at the heart Bakewell is very close to some major attractions, all of which Bakewell’s old railway station, once a of the Peak District (Britain’s first can be reached by bus from the town centre. busy stop of the line national park) and is the ideal base for exploring the delightful between and , lies A romantic medieval and Tudor manor house countryside, picturesque villages just outside the town centre. Today the overlooking the River Wye near Bakewell, line (now known as the Monsal Trail) and many attractions of the area with a magnificent long gallery, oak panelled provides a haven for wildlife and a Set amidst the limestone hills and dales of the ‘’ and rooms, beautiful tapestries and lovely terraced gardens. Amazingly unspoilt and unaltered traffic- free and almost level route for walkers, cyclists and horse close to the high moorland and gritstone edges of the ‘Dark Peak’, over the centuries the house is sought after riders. The track northwards, towards , includes four Bakewell is surrounded by unrivalled scenery. Lovely dales such by film makers and has recently featured newly-opened tunnels and the iconic Monsal Head viaduct. as and riverside paths by the Wye and Derwent offer in a number of period dramas including gentle rambles whilst walks across high heather moorland are Cycle Hire is available at Rutland Mews, off ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’ and ‘Jane Eyre’. rewarded with far-reaching views. www.haddonhall.co.uk Coombs Road www.bakewellbikes.co.uk and at Station on the Monsal Trail just outside the town www.hassopstation.co.uk Chatsworth Easy access to the Monsal Trail is available Chatsworth sits in extensive parkland, its magnificent rooms filled with treasures at Bakewell station (up Station Road) and collected over five centuries by the Dukes there is also access at Coombs Viaduct of Devonshire. With over 100 acres of (along Coombs Road). Walkers and cyclists landscaped gardens, parkland, a children’s are advised to park at the pay and display farmyard and adventure playground, restaurant car park at the Agricultural Business Centre and gift shops this is understandably one and access Coombs Road via the footpath of Britain’s best loved stately homes. An at the back of the centre. award-winning farm shop and restaurant is situated nearby on the road from Bakewell. Bakewell also boasts a modern leisure centre www.chatsworth.org (with swimming pool and gym), two public tennis courts and cricket and football pitches Caudwells Mill at the recreation ground, a nine-hole/eighteen A unique, water-powered working flour mill tee golf club (visitors welcome) plus a Bakewell Show on the River Wye at , with a small bowling club in Bath Gardens. courtyard of craftspeople (e.g. a glassblower and blacksmith), gift shop and café. For more information see The town is famous for its annual www.caudwellsmill.co.uk www.visitpeakdistrict.com/activepeak agricultural and horticultural show – one of the oldest in the country - held Peak Village on the first Wednesday and Thursday A rural shopping village (all on one level) at Visiting Bakewell?... in August. Staged on its own 32-acre Rowsley, with over 20 retailers offering a mix Great value holiday leisure ground close to the town centre, of fashion, sportswear, food, homewares passes for pool and gym the show has a spectacular programme and gifts - many at discounted prices. are available! of events and displays, making it the www.peakvillage.co.uk Bakewell Leisure Centre perfect day out for everyone. Off Granby Road, Bakewell www.bakewellshow.org Enjoy a ride on a working steam train Derbyshire DE45 1ES which runs between Rowsley and Matlock. Tel: 01629 814 205 Special events throughout the year including www.derbyshiredales. ‘Santa Specials’ and 1940s weekends. gov.uk/leisurecentres This information is available in electronic, audio, Braille, www.peakrail.co.uk large print and other language versions on request. Take a Stroll... Follow the suggested walking routes on the map to explore  the town, its riverside setting akewell and hidden gems.

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HOLME LANE P L Long Stay Parking Golf Club CP Coach Parking Methodist Church 1 A619 to Chatsworth, Hassop, Chesterfield and Bus Stops R.C. Church

A6 to Ashford-in-the-Water, Police Station Visitor Centre Buxton and Manchester 3 Victoria Mill WC Public Toilets Suggested Situated on the site Walking Routes of a medieval mill, L Library & Leisure Centre Victoria Mill was Town Hall FOOTBRIDGE used for grinding Cycle Racks corn until the middle Vet 2 of the last century. Now housing apartments and ROAD offices, it has fortunately retained its water wheel. Map © Derbyshire Dales District Council BUXTON ROAD Castle Hill SCOT’S

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S RD. 7 All Saints Church This lovely Grade I listed parish church dominates the skyline from VISITOR its lofty position above the town CENTRE centre. Built mainly in the 13th and 14th centuries, with later Victorian A6 to Agricultural Business Centre restoration and additions, there has + Car Park, Showground, in fact been a church on this site since Haddon Hall and Matlock 13 Old Market Hall Anglo-Saxon times and there are Originally built about 300 years ago as an open-sided hall with a two stone crosses in the churchyard closed room above, this lovely building served as a hub for trade dating from this period. Five ancient in the town. It now houses the Bakewell Visitor Centre and is stone coffins stand by the door. worth a visit to view the interior and pick up information about www.bakewellchurch.co.uk the town, events and the surrounding Peak District National Park.

Find out more... Bakewell Visitor Centre Don’t miss the Visitor Centre for comprehensive information on the Peak District, The Old Market Hall, Bridge Street, Bakewell, DE45 1DS booking accommodation, events and public transport information as well as a great Tel: 01629 816558 E: [email protected] range of maps, guidebooks, souvenirs and gifts. The Centre is housed in an historic www.visitpeakdistrict.com or www.peakdistrict.gov.uk building, once the old market hall, in the centre of the town. On the first floor Follow us on Facebook & Twitter @derbyshiredales there is a superb photography gallery selling images of the Peak District landscape. www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk Produced by Derbyshire Dales District Council Town Hall, Matlock, Derbyshire, DE4 3NN Tel: 01629 761100 Edited by Gill Chapman, Tourism Officer, Derbyshire Dales District Council Whilst every effort has been taken compiling this publication and the statements it contains, the Council cannot accept responsibility for  the products or services advertised. akewell Design & Map artwork by pmgd www.paulmcleangraphicdesign.co.uk 2013 A Rich Heritage... www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk

The fine stone buildings of Bakewell create a timeless atmosphere, later resulting in the building of its lovely five-arched medieval reflecting the town’s long history – from the Anglo Saxon period to bridge. Georgian and Victorian improvements changed the face of the present day. Mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as the town (aided by the coming of the Midland Railway in 1861) and ‘Badequella’, the town had a ‘motte and bailey’ castle in Norman redevelopment in recent years was possible when the agricultural times and became an important crossing point on the river Wye, market moved across the river.

Map points of interest... 10 Rutland Arms Hotel Built in 1804 by the (owner of Haddon Hall), this fine Regency inn and the extensive stabling yard opposite were designed to cater for the dramatic rise in 1 Holme Hall coach travel. It is thought that Jane Austen stayed here and based the big house of A privately owned 17th century manor house with mullioned windows and castellated ‘Pemberley’ in on nearby Chatsworth. parapets, this grand country house enjoys an enviable position looking across riverside meadows to the town. A bridleway next to the house leads over the hill to join up with Bath House the Monsal Trail, passing by Holme Bank chert mine. 11 Dating from the late 18th century when the Duke of Rutland tried to establish Bakewell as a spa town like Buxton and Matlock, this was the site of an elaborate bathhouse with a 2 Packhorse Bridge pool fed by warm thermal springs. He did not achieve his ambition mainly because the temperature of Bakewell’s water (150C) was much colder than its rivals. 3 Victoria Mill

12 Castle Street 4 Arkwright Square A quiet residential street of fine buildings. The Dating from the late 18th century the cottages in Arkwright Square were provided by Sir Castle Inn on the corner had extensive stables and for the workers at his cotton spinning factory at nearby Lumford Mill. was the venue for a regular horse market for over Unfortunately the mill itself burnt down in 1868 leaving just the housing as a reminder of 100 years. The street name (and that of Castle Hill the time when as many as 350 people worked at the mill. across the river) are reminders that Bakewell was once a fortified town. 5 Bagshaw Hall An impressive 17th century hall built out of both gritstone and limestone in the Derbyshire 13 Old Market Hall vernacular style for Thomas Bagshaw, a wealthy solicitor. The hall, now holiday apartments, enjoys birds-eye views over the town and Wye valley. 14 Bakewell Bridge Built over 700 years ago on the site of one of the Roman crossing points on the River Old House Museum 6 Wye, Bakewell’s five-arch bridge is one of A beautifully preserved 16th century house originally built for the collection of the oldest bridges in the country. From here tithes and later converted into housing for Sir Richard Arkwright’s mill workers. you have the choice of two short river The building was fortunately saved from demolition and restored by the walks, upstream through meadowland Bakewell and District Historical Society and now houses a museum in ten known as Scots Garden or downstream beamed rooms with wattle and daub walls. The fascinating collection of furniture, tools, costumes and much more depict the history of Bakewell and towards the recreation ground. the surrounding area over 500 years. For more information and opening times see www.oldhousemuseum.org.uk 15 Agricultural Business Centre A modern centre with conference facilities and popular café, there are events here throughout the year, including a Monday livestock market and a farmers market on the last Saturday of the month.

Please use the Cycle Racks situated around the town

All Saints Church MANCHESTER Getting around... 7 SHEFFIELD The nearest railway stations are 8 Almshouses J30 A623 Matlock ( line), Buxton J19 This pretty line of former almshouses were founded A6 CHESTERFIELD A619 (Manchester line) and Grindleford by Sir John Manners about 300 years ago as the BASLOW A619 J29 (on the Hope Valley line between BUXTON A619 Almshouses of St John’s Hospital and funded by A632 Manchester and Sheffield). charitable donation “to give shelter to destitute akewell M1 The town is a transport hub townsfolk’. Recently renovated and modernised to MATLOCK M6 with regular buses to the A6 provide local affordable housing. surrounding towns and cities ASHBOURNE A52 A52 DERBY (including Chesterfield, Sheffield, 9 Old Town Hall J24

A515 Matlock, Derby, Manchester and A50 Built in 1709 this attractive building was originally the civic centre for Bakewell. Nottingham). Services also run to Despite its chequered history - amongst others as a buttermarket, courtroom many of the surrounding villages.

and the original Lady Manners Grammar School - it retains much of its style and M1 J15 STOKE LICHFIELD www.traveline.org.uk original dignity as a shop selling country clothing and accessories. www.derbyshire.gov.uk/buses