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Bakewell attracts domestic and foreign tourists. Monday is popular as the town's traditional market day. The cattle market is held in a purpose-built agricultural centre across the river from the town centre, where a stall market is held. A major employer is the Peak District National Park Authority, which has its offices at Aldern House ...
Bakewell Market Hall is a historic building in the town of Bakewell, in Derbyshire, in England. The building was constructed in about 1600 as the town's market hall. Originally, the ground floor was partly open to the street, and the upper floor may have been timber framed. It was altered in the 18th century, with the ground floor arcade filled in.
Bakewell is a civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England. The parish contains over 180 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England . Of these, six are listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, three are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest ...
The first town hall in Bakewell was the old town hall in King Street which dated back to the early 17th century. [1] [2] In 1827, petty session hearings and other municipal activities moved to Bakewell Market Hall in Bridge Street. [3] [4] By the late 19th century, the local board of health considered the market hall inadequate.
The assembly room served as a town hall and courtroom, accommodating the petty sessions and the quarter sessions, while the lower floor accommodated St John's Hospital. In 1709, the hospital was relocated to new almshouses in South Church Street, and the old town hall was altered. The ground floor continued to be used as a buttermarket, but ...
The DE postcode area, also known as the Derby postcode area, [2] is a group of 23 postcode districts in central England, within 11 post towns.These cover south and central Derbyshire (including Derby, Alfreton, Ashbourne, Bakewell, Belper, Heanor, Ilkeston, Matlock, Ripley and Swadlincote), parts of east Staffordshire (including Burton upon Trent) and north-west Leicestershire, and very small ...
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Lady Manners School is an English secondary school located in Bakewell, a market town in the Peak District National Park, Derbyshire.It was founded on 20 May 1636 by Grace, Lady Manners, who lived at Haddon Hall, the current home of Lord and Lady Edward Manners, and has also in the past been known as the Bakewell Grammar School.