{"product_id":"bakewell-by-heart","title":"More Than a Pudding: Bakewell \u0026 the Villages By Heart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNext time you're stood in the queue at the Co-op on Market Street, have a think about what used to be there.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntil 1998, that was the cattle market. Every Monday, right in the middle of town. Pens, wagons, the auctioneer rattling through the lots, and the shops carrying on round it like it was the most normal thing in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere's been a Monday market in Bakewell for over 700 years. The beasts only went over the river within living memory. Plenty of people still walk past and picture the pens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost visitors never see that Bakewell. Coach in at eleven, the bridge, the ducks, the love locks, a pudding (not a tart), and gone by four. This book is for everyone else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align:center;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0942\/8218\/7134\/files\/bakewell-03-spread.jpg?v=1791311584\" alt=\"A two-page spread from Chapter One, Market Day\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align:center;margin:28px 0;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/cart\/58165509783934:1\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#3f5a3a;color:#fffaf0;padding:15px 30px;border-radius:6px;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;font-size:17px;\"\u003eGet the book now: instant download\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho it's for\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIf you grew up here,\u003c\/strong\u003e it's the town you remember, with the dates and the names put back on it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIf you moved away,\u003c\/strong\u003e it's a way home for an evening with a brew.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIf you've been coming for years,\u003c\/strong\u003e it's the Bakewell behind the one you know, and the villages you keep driving through on the way.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIf you're thinking of moving here,\u003c\/strong\u003e it's the honest bit too: Mondays, summer traffic, what living inside a national park actually means, and which village suits which kind of life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat's inside\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align:center;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0942\/8218\/7134\/files\/bakewell-04-inside.jpg?v=1791311583\" alt=\"What's inside the Bakewell book\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMarket day, then and now.\u003c\/strong\u003e The cattle market in town, the move over the river, and how to do a Monday without losing your rag: when to come, where to park, and what's on at the Agricultural Business Centre.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe bridges.\u003c\/strong\u003e The old town bridge, and Holme Bridge from 1664, built so narrow for the packhorses that it has little refuges in the walls to tuck yourself into.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLumford.\u003c\/strong\u003e Richard Arkwright's third cotton mill, nearly as big as both his Cromford mills put together, and the son he sent to live by the river and learn the trade.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAll Saints.\u003c\/strong\u003e Two Saxon crosses from the 800s, the carved stones in the porch that were dug up in the 1840s, and the Vernon tombs that tie the church to Haddon.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe pudding.\u003c\/strong\u003e Where the story comes from, told straight, and no picking sides between the shops.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRuskin and the railway.\u003c\/strong\u003e How the line he hated became the trail everyone loves, and when to walk it so you've got it to yourself.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe villages, one by one.\u003c\/strong\u003e Ashford in the Water, Great and Little Longstone, Hassop, Over Haddon and Lathkill Dale, Youlgreave, Rowsley, Pilsley and Edensor, Monyash and Sheldon.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWell dressings, village by village.\u003c\/strong\u003e Roughly when each one is on, so you stop finding out the week after.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHaddon or Chatsworth?\u003c\/strong\u003e An honest answer for when you've only got the one day.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiet Bakewell.\u003c\/strong\u003e The hours, the seasons and the corners when it still feels like yours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eYour Bakewell.\u003c\/strong\u003e Pages at the back for your own memories, because the best of this town was never written down.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFree updates\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDates move every year, the well dressings included. Whenever the book is updated, you get the new version free.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe easy bit\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's a digital book. Once you've paid, the download link comes straight to your email. It opens on a phone, tablet or computer, and you can print it at home if you'd rather hold it in your hands. No app, no account, nothing to install.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eKnow someone who moved away?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt makes a lovely present for anyone who grew up round here and ended up somewhere else. Buy it, forward them the email, done. With Christmas coming, it might be the easiest present you send this year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align:center;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0942\/8218\/7134\/files\/bakewell-05-updates-gift.jpg?v=1791311583\" alt=\"Free updates and an easy gift for anyone who moved away\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:6px;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align:center;margin:28px 0;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/cart\/58165509783934:1\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#3f5a3a;color:#fffaf0;padding:15px 30px;border-radius:6px;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;font-size:17px;\"\u003eYes, I want More Than a Pudding\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align:center;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBakewell has always been more than a pudding. This is the rest of it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Roots \u0026 Routes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58165509783934,"sku":"BAKEWELL-BH-01","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0942\/8218\/7134\/files\/bakewell-cover.jpg?v=1791311584","url":"https:\/\/rootsand-routes.com\/products\/bakewell-by-heart","provider":"Roots \u0026 Routes","version":"1.0","type":"link"}