SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF BAKEWELL IN DERBYSHIRE,
AND OF THE EARLY GRAVE-STONES AND OTHER REMAINS DISCOVERED DURING THE RECENT REPAIRS.
SOUTH TRANSEPT, AS IT APPEARED IN 1841.
The town of Bakewell[1] is situated in one of the most beautiful vales in Derbyshire, at the entrance into the Peak district, on the high road, and nearly midway between Matlock and Buxton. It is so well known, on account of the many objects of interest with which its immediate neighbourhood abounds, that any further description is unnecessary. It will only be added, that it has been a place of some importance
- ↑ The Saxon name baꝺecanwillan, or Baꞇhecanwell, i. e. the bathing well, is obviously derived from its baths, which were known by the Romans. In the Doomsday Survey and other early documents it is called Badequelle and Baucwell. See Glover's Hist. of Derbyshire. A work containing much valuable local information, which it is to be regretted is not yet completed.
