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Archive Reference / Library Class No.LS/712.609425 Oversize
TitleChatsworth: the gardens and the people who made them.
Date2023
Publication Date2023
AuthorTitchmarsh, Alan
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
ISBN9781529148213
AbstractFollow Alan Titchmarsh into Chatsworth's irresistible world of visionaries, pioneers, heroes, villains and English eccentrics, and celebrate the men and women who have shaped the history of the estate over five centuries. With his passionate knowledge of both the house and gardens, as well as his long-established relationship with the Cavendish family, Alan is the perfect guide with whom to explore the Palace of the Peaks. Featuring stunning, specially commissioned photography of the gardens and parkland, alongside long-forgotten images and memorabilia newly unearthed in the estate archives, this vivid companion, crowded with character and colour, is a book to treasure and revisit over and over again.
TermGardens
Cricket
Exhibitions
Sculpture

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Shrewsbury; Elizabeth (c1527-1608); Countess; 'Bess of Hardwick', builder of Hardwick Hall and the original Chatsworth House.
Brown; Lancelot (1716-1783); Landscape gardener; redesigned Chatsworth park and gardens in 1760.
Paine; James (1717-1789); Architect in the Palladian style, designed Chatsworth stable block and bridges.
Paxton; Sir; Joseph (1803-1865); English gardener, architect and Member of Parliament, best known for designing The Crystal Palace; also designed gardens and glasshouses at Chatsworth.
Devonshire; Deborah Vivien Cavendish (1920-2014); Duchess; Of Chatsworth House; Duchess of Devonshire, wife of Andrew,11th Duke.
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Chatsworth 
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