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Chatsworth House is a stately home in the Derbyshire Dales, 4 miles (6.4 km) north-east of Bakewell and 9 miles (14 km) west of Chesterfield, England.The seat of the Duke of Devonshire, it has belonged to the Cavendish family since 1549.
One of the homes of the Duke and Duchess is Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. They are involved in the operation of the house as a tourist attraction. [19] In 2019, the Duke and Duchess visited Sotheby's to view "Treasures From Chatsworth", including art and artifacts from Chatsworth House, that would be displayed in New York. [20] [21]
Deborah Vivien "Debo" Mitford (31 March 1920 – 24 September 2014) was nicknamed "Nine" by her sister Nancy (Debo's supposed mental age.) [8] She married Andrew Cavendish (1920—2004), who later became the Duke of Devonshire, and with him turned his ancestral home Chatsworth House into one of Britain's most successful stately homes. She wrote ...
The manor house was built in the 1840s for Francis Wright of the Butterley Iron Company. He sold the estate to Sir Andrew Barclay Walker, 1st Baronet in 1888. The baronetcy was created for him in 1886. The house was used as a Red Cross hospital during World War II. [61] Osmaston Manor was demolished in 1964. [62]
Andrew Robert Buxton Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, KG, MC, PC, DL (2 January 1920 – 3 May 2004), styled Lord Andrew Cavendish until 1944 and Marquess of Hartington from 1944 to 1950, was a British peer and politician.
Chatsworth is a three-part British television documentary series first aired on BBC One in 2012. It documents, over 2011, contemporary life at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, England which, as the family seat of the Duke of Devonshire, employs 700 staff to look after the 300 rooms of the house, plus a 35,000-acre estate, embracing 62 farms and three villages.
Ten houses are currently in the group. These are (together with their location and historic owners): Beaulieu Palace House in Hampshire (Barons Montagu of Beaulieu) Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire (Dukes of Marlborough) Burghley House in Cambridgeshire (Marquesses of Exeter) – now overseen by Burghley House Preservation Trust Limited. [1] [2] [3]
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