Its Monday market, now housed in the modern Agricultural Business Centre, has probably existed for over a thousand years, and it still serves as an important social meeting place for local farmers.<\/p>
Find out the best things to do, pubs and hotels to visit, and where to sample the original Bakewell tart with our visitor’s guide.<\/p>
- Castleton guide: things to do<\/a><\/li>
- Tideswell guide: things to do<\/a><\/li>
- Fabulous Peak District walks<\/a><\/li><\/ul>
The River Wye runs through Bakewell\/Credit: Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure> Things to do in Bakewell<\/h2>
Many travel into the town over the 13th<\/sup>-century Town Bridge over the Wye, the banks of which are popular with kids who love to feed the flocks of wildfowl. Towering over the town is the elegant spire of the Parish Church of All Saints, which features monuments to the Vernon and Manners families, ancestral Lords of the Manor from nearby Haddon Hall<\/a>.<\/p>
The late 17th<\/sup>-century Old Market Hall in the centre of town now serves as a National Park and Tourist Information Centre, but reputedly the oldest house is Bakewell is the Tudor Old House Museum<\/a> with its excellent exhibition of items from the town\u2019s past.\u00a0<\/p>
- Peak District guide: things to do and places to stay<\/a><\/li>
- Yorkshire Dales guide: things to do and best walks<\/a><\/li><\/ul>
Bakewell tart<\/h2>
You can taste an original Bakewell pudding (or tart) at the place which claims, among others, to hold the original recipe in the Old Original Bakewell Pudding Shop<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>
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Go in search of the famous Bakewell pudding\/Credit: Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure> Bakewell walks<\/h2>
Join the Monsal Trail \u2013 formerly the Midland Line but now a traffic-free, walking and riding route \u2013 at the former Bakewell Station for an easy, four-mile walk to one of the Peak\u2019s most famous viewpoints at Monsal Head.\u00a0<\/p>
- Monsal Dale walk<\/a><\/li>
- Chee Dale walk<\/a><\/li>
- Cressbrook Dale walk<\/a><\/li><\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n
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- Chee Dale walk<\/a><\/li>
- Yorkshire Dales guide: things to do and best walks<\/a><\/li><\/ul>
- Tideswell guide: things to do<\/a><\/li>