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The estate was acquired by the Stanhope family in 1538. The earldom was created in 1742. The Gothic Revival castle was built from 1815 and is a Grade II* listed building. [24] The estate was sold in 1969 by William Stanhope, 11th Earl of Harrington to Derbyshire County Council and the grounds are a public country park. [25] Earl of Scarsdale
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The estate includes dozens of tenanted farms and over 450 houses and flats. There are five sub-estates scattered across Derbyshire: The Main Estate is a compact block of 12,310 acres (4,982 ha) around the house, including the park and many properties in the villages of Baslow, Pilsley, Edensor, Beeley, and Calton Lees.
Oakwood is a modern housing estate in Derby, Derbyshire, England that was built mainly in the 1980s and 1990s. At the time of construction, it was one of the largest new housing estates in Europe . [ 1 ]
Derbyshire (/ ˈ d ɑːr b i ʃ ɪər,-ʃ ər / DAR-bee-sheer, -shər) [4] is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It borders Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire to the north, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south-east, Staffordshire to the south and west, and Cheshire to the west.
Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire, England, UK was the setting for Pemberley in the 1980 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice starring Elizabeth Garvie and David Rintoul, adapted from the novel by Fay Weldon. Lyme Park, near Stockport, was the setting for Pemberley for the 1995 television series of Pride and Prejudice starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin ...
Sudbury Hall is a country house in Sudbury, Derbyshire, England.One of the country's finest Restoration mansions, it has Grade I listed building status, [1] and the garden is Grade II listed in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens.
Alsop en le Dale church Bugsworth Basin Buxton, The Crescent Charlesworth church Chesterfield's 'Crooked Spire' Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site The Vale of Edale Eyam Hall and stocks Glossop, Henry Street Hayfield Well Dressing Longdendale from Woodhead New Mills, Torr Vale Mill Riber Castle River Derwent, south of Duffield River Goyt River Lathkill South Wingfield church Swanwick Hall