Bakewell and Prejudice". Bakewell Bakewell is a small market town and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, well known for the local confection Bakewell pudding. It is located on the River Wye, about thirteen miles (21 km) southwest of Sheffield. In the 2011 census the civil parish of Bakewell had a population of 3,949. The town is close to the tourist attractions of Chatsworth House and Haddon Hall. Although there is evidence of earlier settlements in the area, Bakewell itself was probably founded in Anglo Saxon times, when Bakewell was in the Anglian kingdom of Mercia. The
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