About Chatsworth House

Chatsworth House is a stately home in the Derbyshire Dales, four miles north-east of Bakewell and nine miles west of Chesterfield. It is the seat of the Duke of Devonshire and has belonged to the Cavendish family since 1549. The house has been in the same family for more than four and a half centuries.

The house stands on the east bank of the River Derwent, surrounded by parkland and backed by wooded hills rising to heather moorland. Bess of Hardwick began building the new Chatsworth in 1553, choosing a riverside site that was drained by a series of reservoirs which also served as fish ponds.

Highlights

• Seat of the Dukes of Devonshire
• Cavendish family home since 1549
• Parkland beside the River Derwent

• Indoor, good for rainy days

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