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
Bakewell pudding edition. A recipe for "bakewell pudding" does, however, appear in the 1847 edition. One of the earliest verifiable examples of a Bakewell pudding recipe comes from "The Magazine of Domestic Economy" issued in London in 1836. Eliza Acton published a recipe in her 1845 work "Modern Cookery for Private Families" and Mrs Beeton published two recipes for Bakewell pudding, one which used a pastry base and one which used breadcrumbs, in her book "The Book of Household Management" in 1861. The pudding originated in the Derbyshire town of Bakewell. The origins of the pudding are not clear, but a common