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BAKEWELL - LoveToKnow Article on BAKEWELL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | BAKEWELL, a market-town in the western parliamentary division of Derbyshire, England, on the river Wye, 25 m. |
 | | Bakewell is noted for a chalybeate spring, of use in cases of chronic rheumatism, and there are baths attached to it. |
 | | A kind of jam-cake, called a Bakewell pudding, gives another sort of fame to the place, The almshouses, known as St Johns hospital, were founded in 1602; and in 1637 a free grammar school was endowed by Lady Grace Manners. |
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