BAKEWELL, a market-town in Derbyshire, on the River Wye, 152 miles from London. The church is a fine old structure, in the form of a cross. The inhabitants are supported by the working of the coal, lead, and zinc mines, and the stone and marble quarries in the neighbourhood. There is also a large cotton manufactory in the town. Bakewell is remarkable for its excellent trout-fishing, and for a chalybeate spring, frequented by invalids. It has a free school of very ancient date, a dispensary, and a literary and scientific institution, &c. Pop. in 1851, 2217.