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
Danny Bakewell Coast. He purchased the Los Angeles Sentinel, the city's oldest and largest Black newspaper, in 2004. Soon after, in 2007, he purchased the New Orleans radio station WBOK. In 2009, Bakewell was elected Chairman of the National Newspaper Publishers Association. Bakewell and his wife Aline have two adult children (Danny Jr. and Brandi) and four grandchildren. Bakewell and his family currently reside in Bradbury, California. Danny Bakewell Danny Joseph Bakewell (born 1946) is an American civil rights activist and entrepreneur. He is the owner of "The Bakewell Company", which includes among its holdings the New Orleans radio station WBOK and