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
Selina Huntington Bakewell Campbell Selina Huntington Bakewell Campbell Selina Huntington Bakewell Campbell (12 November 1802 – 28 June 1897) was an important woman in the Restoration Movement, which is sometimes referred to as the Stone-Campbell Movement. Selina was also the second wife of Alexander Campbell. Selina Bakewell was baptized at nineteen years of age by her mentor, Alexander Campbell, and had a close relationship with his wife, Margaret Brown Campbell. She became a member of the Wellsburg, West Virginia Church of Christ and formed a very close relationship with the Campbell family. So close that, as Margaret lay dying of turberculosis, Margaret secured a