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Bakewell War Memorial

Grade II listed war memorial in Bakewell, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England, UK

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ26602778 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bakewell War Memorial is a 20th-century grade II listed war memorial in Bakewell, Derbyshire.

History

The sandstone memorial is dedicated to the inhabitants of Bakewell that died during the First World War.

The memorial has been Grade II listed since 20 May 1974.

Editorial summary

“Bakewell War Memorial” enters the record as grade II listed war memorial in Bakewell, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, England, UK. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bakewell, Memorial and Grade can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bakewell, Memorial and Grade.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Bakewell War Memorial” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bakewell, Memorial and Grade provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q26602778. Authority coordinates are 53.213, -1.676. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Bakewell War Memorial”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Bakewell War Memorial primary sources, Bakewell War Memorial archive and Bakewell research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Bakewell War Memorial”?
  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
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This entry incorporates text from “Bakewell War Memorial” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.