Stone Croft

The history of Bakewell, a medium sized market town on the River Wye, is inextricably linked to the interwoven history of the Vernon and Manners families (the families of the Duke of Rutland).

Surrounded by an amphitheatre of hills, and overlooked by its Parish church, Bakewell is famous for its agricultural show and the making of the renowned Bakewell Tart (or Pudding).

Convenient for touring both the Peak District and the National Park, this unspoilt town is full of a variety of small shops. However, the recently updated center of town contains two supermarkets, a Post Office and all the facilities you could wish for without detracting from the rural charm of the town.

Bakewell Show, held in August, is the premier agricultural show in Derbyshire. Now in its 150th year, it claims to be the longest continuous running agricultural show in England.

Annually, at the end of June, a number of wells are "dressed" with pictures made from thousands of fresh flowers. This is a local custom which goes back many hundreds of years.

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Bakewell Puddings

No visitor to Bakewell should go away without sampling the original recipe for the Bakewell Tart, although the correct name of the confection is ' Bakewell Pudding'.
In 1860 the story goes, the cook employed by a Mrs. Graves at the Rutland Arms Hotel was instructed to pour a mixture into a pastry case and then add jam, but the cook reversed the procedure, thus creating a new sweet offering. The recipe was handed down through the generations until it came to a Mr. Bloomer, the present family who run the Old Original Bakewell Pudding Shop (known in my childhood simply as "Bloomer's"), and claim to have the rights to the original Recipe.

Bakewell at the Peak District National Park Site

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Other local Places of interest:

Haddon Hall

Chatsworth House

Crich Tramway Museum