Bakewell

By bus

By car

• Haddon HallA lovely medieval hall, expanded piecemeal over the centuries to give very organic and lived-in feel.

• Chatsworth HouseMassive and spectacular late-17th-century stately home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire (inspiration for Pemberley, apparently), open to public, pay for parking but with free access to surrounding area (flat riverside ambles, wooded hillside trails, famous fountain. Restaurants, at old stables, cafe at car park in grounds.

• Near Chatsworth in Pilsley is Chatsworth Farm Shop: plays heavily on noble connection: "Duke's cure bacon", "Duchy of Cornwall Biscuits" etc., etc. (Mrs Bucket would shop here) but also popular because of huge range of good fresh fruit, veg and meat, and some exotic stuff not so easy to obtain elsewhere (venison, boar, etc.). Includes a tea shop.
• Monsal Dale. A deep picturesque dale complete with the Monsal trail, a disused railway line providing easy walking, cycling and horse riding. Enjoy going through the old tunnel and exiting on the 70ft high viaduct over the River Wye.

Cafés & Coffee Shops

• The Bakewell Pudding Parlour

  phone: +44 1629 815107
  address: Wye House, Water Street

• The Bakewell Tart Shop & Coffee House

  phone: +44 1629 814692
  address: Matlock Street

• The Honey Bun Café

  phone: +44 7530 353008
  address: 1 Water Street

• The Old Original Bakewell Pudding Shop

  phone: +44 1629 812193
  address: The Square

• Upstairs Café

  phone: +44 1629 815567
  address: 3 Market Street

• Byways

  phone: +44 1629 812807
  address: Water Lane
  has creaky wooden floors, wonky ceilings, and a very traditional tea shop feel.

Diners, fast food etc.

• Wye Plaice

  phone: +44 1629 812727
  address: Granby Road
  Fish and Chip Shop

Restaurants

• Piedaniels Restaurant

  phone: +44 1629 812687
  address: Bath Street
  French

• Rajas

  phone: +44 1629 814336
  address: Bridge House, Bridge Street
  Indian Restaurant

• The Manners Hotel

  phone: +44 1629 812756
  address: Haddon Road

• The Queen's Arms

  phone: +44 1629 814586
  address: Bridge Street

• The Red Lion

  phone: +44 1629 812054
  address: The Square

• The Wheatsheaf

  phone: +44 1629 812985
  address: Bridge Street

• The Rutland Arms Hotel

  phone: +44 1629 812812
  address: The Square
  Serves food

• The Peacock Hotel

  phone: +44 1629 813635
  address: Market Street

• Castle Inn

  phone: +44 1629 812103
  address: Castle Street

• Bolehill Farm Cottages

  address: Monyash Road Bakewell
  Our eight Peak District self-catering cottages are converted farm buildings set in courtyard surrounded by spectacular rural landscape yet only 2 miles for the Peak District Market town of Bakewell

• Many, many nearby villages nearly all worth a trip by bus or car or on foot, and most have a pub or tea shop. Examples include Over Haddon, Monyash, Ashford in the Water and Youlgr(e)ave with two names.
• Matlock is 15 minutes by car, and there are also buses, and a steam train from Rowsley. Another Peak District town, a little less cute than Bakewell (preferred by some because of that), with usual shops and pubs and a pleasant riverside town park with a little lake (try lawn bowls – "Crown Green Bowling").
• Matlock Bath is just beyond Matlock. Strange "seaside" feel, almost as far inland as you can get in England, cable cars to hilltop caves and popular meeting place for motorcyclists at the weekend, worth visiting to see hundreds of bikes lined up along the main street.
• Cromford is a mile beyond Matlock Bath. A tiny town in a green setting, yet its main draw is "Arkwright's Mill" from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, the first large factory (water-powered cotton spinning mill) in the modern world. Also the Cromford Canal is a lovely waterway in a very rural setting – but not yet reconnected to the English canal network, so few boats.