Bakewell Book and a motte and bailey castle was constructed in the 12th century. A market was established in 1254, and Bakewell developed as a trading centre. The Grade I listed five-arched bridge over the River Wye was constructed in the 13th century, and is one of the few surviving remnants of this earlier period. A chalybeate spring was discovered, and a bath house built in 1697. This led to an 18th-century bid to develop Bakewell as a spa town, in the manner of Buxton. The construction of the Lumford Mill by Richard Arkwright in 1777 was followed by the rebuilding
William Bakewell opened a successful real estate company. For four decades, Bakewell served on the board of Motion Picture and Television Fund. Bakewell's autobiography, "Hollywood Be Thy Name--Random Recollections of a Movie Veteran From Silents to Talkies to TV", was published in 1991. On April 15, 1993, Bakewell died of leukemia in Los Angeles at the age of 84. William Bakewell William Bakewell (May 2, 1908 – April 15, 1993) was an American actor who achieved his greatest fame as one of the leading juvenile performers of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Bakewell was a Los Angeles native who attended Harvard