Bakewell is in the heart of
the Peak District National Park. You can walk
from Church Cottage's front door down the river
valley to Haddon Hall or over the hills to
Chatsworth Park. The Cottage is in the middle of
village, directly opposite the lovely old parish
church. The Peak Park Information office is in
the middle of the town - next door to Ye Olde
Original Bakewell Pudding shop.
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Bakewell is a maze of little
streets and shopping squares with lovely short
walks for the evenings through the water meadows
and round the backs of the old houses. Monday is
market day and very busy with a big open air
market of stalls in the square from 7.30 in the
morning to mid afternoon. There are French,
Italian, Chinese, Indian, Australian and British
restaurants for your evening meals and dozens of
tea shops for mid afternoon breaks and pubs and
delis serving food all day. A short car journey
will take you to Eyam, the Plague Village, or
Castletons caves, or the Chatsworth estate
villages of Endsor, Pilsey and Beeley or to any
number of wonderful villages, walks and fabulous
views.
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A list of bike trails is also
available at the Peak Information Office with
information about hiring cycles for day trips on
the Tissington Trail. For the younger end of the
family there is Gullivers Kingdom in Matlock
Bath or a cable car ride to the Heights of
Abraham.
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