Monday 30th June 2025.
Chatsworth House is a stately home in the Derbyshire Dales 4 miles N.E. of Bakewell. It is the seat of the Duke of Devonshire and has belonged to the Cavendish family since 1549.
It stands on the east bank of the river Derwent across from hills between the Derwent and Wye valleys amid parkland backed by wooded hills that rise to heather moorland. The main estate around the house is 12,310 acres but the family also own land near Bolton Abbey and Lismore Castle estate in Ireland.
We had pre booked on line for entrance to the house and gardens and as it became the hottest day this year we drove down to the main car park rather than walk.
I’m using a new camera and didn’t probably get the best of the shots of the interior, the tour is a series of 25 rooms to explore, mainly showing the art and artefacts that have been collected over the centuries, I personally would have liked to have seen the parts of the house that showed how they lived.
After we completed the tour of the interior we returned to Homer for lunch and then accompanied by Layla we headed back to tour the grounds.
As many such houses the grounds and surrounding area have over the years been heavily landscaped and altered, the river was diverted large areas flattened and people such as Capability Brown employed on designs, I wonder if they would get planning permission today? I doubt it.
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