Bakewell
Bakewell is a picturesque historical market town in the heart of the Peak District National Park, Derbyshire famed for its Bakewell Puddings and Bakewell Tarts.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: John Walton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 3,950 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England
- Also known as: “Bakewell, Derbyshire”
Photo: Nessy-Pic, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Old House Museum and Bakewell Castle.
Old House Museum
Museum
Photo: Elisa.rolle, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Bakewell Old House Museum in the town of Bakewell in Derbyshire is a typical 16th-century yeoman's house that now houses a museum. It tells the story of the house as well as the lives of people from Bakewell and this part of the Peak District.
Bakewell Castle
Archaeological site
Photo: Dave.Dunford, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bakewell Castle was in the town of Bakewell, Derbyshire. It was a motte and bailey castle. According to some sources it was built in the year 924 by Edward the Elder, who also established the main burh.
Newholme Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Peter Barr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newholme Hospital is a community healthcare facility at Baslow Road in Bakewell, Derbyshire. It was managed by Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust. It is a Grade II listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Over Haddon and Ashford-in-the-Water.
Over Haddon
Village
Photo: John Sutton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Over Haddon is a small village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 255. It is near the small town of Bakewell, south of the B5055 road.
Ashford-in-the-Water
Village
Photo: Andy Jamieson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ashford-in-the-Water is a village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Peak District, England. The village is on the River Wye, 2 miles north-west of Bakewell.
Pilsley
Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pilsley is a small village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England. At the 2011 Census the population of the civil parish was 152. It is close to Chatsworth and most of it belongs to the Chatsworth House estate.
Bakewell
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.2148° or 53° 12′ 53″ northLongitude
-1.6759° or 1° 40′ 33″ westPopulation
3,950Elevation
413 feet (126 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BKWOpen location code
9C5W687F+WMOpenStreetMap ID
node 29389527OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Bakewell” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Bakewell”
- Belarusian: “Бэйкўэл”
- Bengali: “বেকওয়েল”
- Catalan: “Bakewell”
- Cebuano: “Bakewell”
- Chinese: “Bakewell”
- Chinese: “貝克威爾”
- Chinese: “贝克威尔”
- Dutch: “Bakewell”
- French: “Bakewell”
- German: “Bakewell”
- Greek: “Μπέικγουελ”
- Gujarati: “બેકવેલ”
- Hebrew: “דרבישר”
- Irish: “Bakewell”
- Italian: “Bakewell”
- Japanese: “ベイクウェル”
- Kannada: “ಬೇಕೆವೆಲ್”
- Korean: “베이크웰”
- Ladin: “Bakewell”
- Lithuanian: “Beiksvelis”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bakewell (Derbyshire)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bakewell”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bakewell”
- Persian: “باکول”
- Polish: “Bakewell”
- Portuguese: “Bakewell”
- Romanian: “Bakewell”
- Russian: “Бейквелл”
- South Azerbaijani: “باکول”
- Spanish: “Bakewell”
- Swedish: “Bakewell”
- Tamil: “பாகெவெள்”
- Telugu: “బేక్ వెల్”
- Turkish: “Bakewell”
- Urdu: “باکیویل”
- Volapük: “Bakewell”
- Welsh: “Bakewell”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Bakewell”. Photo: John Walton, CC BY-SA 2.0.