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BAKEWELL
MARKET HALL
THE FEATURE
The town is particularly busy
every Monday, which is market day, when the stalls and the livestock market,
in normal circumstances, do brisk business. Until recently, the livestock
market occupied a position near the centre of the town, before moving to its
controversial new building on the other side of the river away from the town
centre.
The strong connection with
agriculture is further emphasised every August when the town hosts one of
the largest agricultural shows in the country. The two-day event is normally
attended by in the region of 35,000 people and despite foot and mouth, it
continued in a modified format in 2001.
The
Old Market Hall, adjoins the Market
Square, which was built as an open-sided market hall. Since those
early days, it has seen many uses: as a washhouse, dance hall, library and
restaurant. Now it serves as a Tourist Information Centre and holds several
interesting exhibitions.
Bakewell
Tourist Information Centre is
jointly operated by the Peak District National Park
Authority and Derbyshire Dales District Council. There is level access into the
centre, where you can ask for information or just study the
wide range of informative material on the Peak National
Park. Apart from the usual leaflets and brochures you would
expect to find in a TIC, there is a display of locally
produced goods as well books and maps available for
purchase.
Upstairs is a "Landscape
Detectives" interactive exhibition. A lift at the back of
the building, by the stairs, provides alternative access to
the first floor. The centre does not have associated parking
facilities, but
behind it there is a Derbyshire Dales District Council pay
and display car park, with six disabled bays for parking,
free to blue badge holders. On Mondays this area is taken up
by the market, the town having one of the oldest markets in
the area, dating from at least 1300. The first recorded fair
was held in 1254.
The Old Market Hall and Tourist
Information Centre (Tel: 01629 813227)
Open: March to end Oct daily 9.30am
- 5.30pm, Nov to end Feb daily 10am - 5pm.
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BAKEWELL MARKET HALL
Bakewell Old Market Hall:
(Tel 01629
816558)is an impressive building that dates back to the 17th
century and now accommodates the Tourist Information Centre. Goods produced
by members of the Peak Products organisation are attractively displayed for
purchase. In addition, if you want something a little different, you can
send a postcard to the future as well as acting as landscape detective!
Open: March to end Oct daily 9.30am
- 5.30pm, Nov to end Feb daily 10am - 5pm.
THE DISCOVER DERBYSHIRE AND THE PEAK DISTRICT GUIDE
Provides a
wide range of features with heritage trails and
detailed countryside walks, through some of the most scenically
attractive countryside in the UK.
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BAKEWELL FEATURE
Set in an enviable location on the banks of the River Wye, in the heart of
the Peak District, is the picturesque old market town of Bakewell.
Visitors flock to Bakewell in the summer, to shop and explore its many nooks
and cranies, to admire its fine buildings.
Bakewell Feature
BAKEWELL WALK
This is an exhilarating walk through high pastures and woodland returning
along the Monsal Trail to Bakewell’s former railway station.
You join The Monsal Trail at Coombs Road viaduct, the
eastern terminal of the trail.
Bakewell Walk
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