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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D504/P/21
TitlePlan of Chatsworth House and surrounding land
Date[c1828]
DescriptionShows Chatsworth House, the Pleasure Grounds, Stand Wood, Gibbet Moor, the north part of the Park, & the area of the Park east of the River Derwent etc. Acreages, field & plot numbers, some buildings, roads & woodland included. Schedule on left side giving tenants names, acreages held, & sometimes allocating plot & field numbers to tenants. The old road from Chesterfield to Baslow then within the Park is marked. No date but presumably after the purchase of the north end of the Park 1823-1825 from the Duke of Rutland which is included on the plan. Also Wyattville's North Wing of Chatsworth House is included. George Unwin's plan dated 1831 (property of the Chatsworth Trustees) includes similar information but excluding the old Chesterfield- Baslow road, the fields, plots & many of the buildings. Presumed date about 1828. Size of plan- 1.5 feet by approx. 1.75 feet. A separate note on the reverse-" To Mr Harrison, Bakewell."
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LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorClient of Messrs Brooke Taylor & Company of Bakewell, solicitors
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