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Images from our recent visit to Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England.
(Shot raw and processed using: DxO PL Elite/ ViewPoint and Adobe LrC/ PS with Tony Kuyper Panels. The compilations are a mix of R7 - Karen and R5 - Phil).
Images of the house interior will follow in a separate post.
Phil and Karen
1. Chatsworth, renowned for its art and landscape, is home to the Devonshire family and has been passed down through 17 generations. It has been chosen several times as Britain's favourite country house.
2. 'Chatsworth' is a corruption of Chetel's-worth (‘the Court of Chetel’). Chetel, a norse man, was deposed after the Norman Conquest and custody passed to William de Peverel. This is the Hunting Lodge which was used by guests to view hunting activities on the (then) unwooded hillside.
3. In the 15th-century the Leche family acquired the land. In 1549 they sold all their property in the area to William Cavendish, Treasurer of the King’s Chamber and the husband of Bess of Hardwick. Bess began to build the new house in 1553. Sir William died in 1557, but Bess finished the house in the 1560s and lived there with her fourth husband, George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury.
4. In October 1832, Princess Victoria (later Queen Victoria) and her mother, the Duchess of Kent, visited Chatsworth, where the Princess had her first formal adult dinner at the age of 13, in the new dining room.
5. The Belvedere Tower, at the end of the long North Wing, was originally designed as a ballroom. One of the two boxes was used by Queen Victoria when she attended a ball here in 1843. In 1896 the 8th Duke arranged for the room to be fitted out as a theatre and between 1898 and 1907 it was used so regularly by the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) that the press dubbed it the ‘Theatre Royal’.
6. The 105 acre garden is the product of nearly 500 years of carful cultivation. Grand waterworks include the 300-year-old Cascade and the impressive gravity-fed Emperor Fountain. Cavendish bananas, named after William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, accounted for 47% of global banana production and the vast majority of bananas entering international trade (1998 and 2000).
7. Chatsworth has been used as a filming location for The Duchess, Pride and Prejudice and The Wolfman and for the TV drama Peaky Blinders. Chatsworth is now cared for by a registered charity, the Chatsworth House Trust, which preserves the house, garden and parkland.
(Sources: Chatsworth, Wikipedia).
(Shot raw and processed using: DxO PL Elite/ ViewPoint and Adobe LrC/ PS with Tony Kuyper Panels. The compilations are a mix of R7 - Karen and R5 - Phil).
Images of the house interior will follow in a separate post.
Phil and Karen
1. Chatsworth, renowned for its art and landscape, is home to the Devonshire family and has been passed down through 17 generations. It has been chosen several times as Britain's favourite country house.
2. 'Chatsworth' is a corruption of Chetel's-worth (‘the Court of Chetel’). Chetel, a norse man, was deposed after the Norman Conquest and custody passed to William de Peverel. This is the Hunting Lodge which was used by guests to view hunting activities on the (then) unwooded hillside.
3. In the 15th-century the Leche family acquired the land. In 1549 they sold all their property in the area to William Cavendish, Treasurer of the King’s Chamber and the husband of Bess of Hardwick. Bess began to build the new house in 1553. Sir William died in 1557, but Bess finished the house in the 1560s and lived there with her fourth husband, George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury.
4. In October 1832, Princess Victoria (later Queen Victoria) and her mother, the Duchess of Kent, visited Chatsworth, where the Princess had her first formal adult dinner at the age of 13, in the new dining room.
5. The Belvedere Tower, at the end of the long North Wing, was originally designed as a ballroom. One of the two boxes was used by Queen Victoria when she attended a ball here in 1843. In 1896 the 8th Duke arranged for the room to be fitted out as a theatre and between 1898 and 1907 it was used so regularly by the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) that the press dubbed it the ‘Theatre Royal’.
6. The 105 acre garden is the product of nearly 500 years of carful cultivation. Grand waterworks include the 300-year-old Cascade and the impressive gravity-fed Emperor Fountain. Cavendish bananas, named after William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, accounted for 47% of global banana production and the vast majority of bananas entering international trade (1998 and 2000).
7. Chatsworth has been used as a filming location for The Duchess, Pride and Prejudice and The Wolfman and for the TV drama Peaky Blinders. Chatsworth is now cared for by a registered charity, the Chatsworth House Trust, which preserves the house, garden and parkland.
(Sources: Chatsworth, Wikipedia).
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