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Extract from the Bakewell Travel Guides:
BAKEWELL
, flanking the banks of the River Wye some four miles south of Baslow - and twelve miles east of Buxton - is famous for its
Bakewell Pudding
. Known throughout the rest of the country as a Bakewell Tart, this is a wonderful slippery, flaky, almond-flavoured confection - now with a dab of jam - invented here around 1860 when a cook botched a recipe for strawberry tart. Almost a century before this fortuitous mishap, the Duke of Rutland set out to turn what was then a remote village into a prestigious spa, thereby trumping the work of his rival, the Duke of Devonshire, in Buxton. The frigidity of the water made failur...
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