Chatsworth is a civil parish in Derbyshire, England, within the area of the Derbyshire Dales and the Peak District National Park. The population is largely in and around Chatsworth House and is considered to be too low to justify a parish council. Instead, there is a parish meeting, at which all electors may attend
Chatsworth House is a stately home in the Derbyshire Dales, 4 miles north-east of Bakewell and 9 miles west of Chesterfield, England. The seat of the Duke of Devonshire, it has belonged to the Cavendish family since 1549.
Beeleyis a village andcivil parishin northernDerbyshire,England. Located nearBakewellin theDerbyshire Dales, it is situated on theB6012 road, betweenRowsleyandEdensor. The civil parish population at the 2011 Census was 195.[1]
It is part of thePeak District National Park, and has been part of theChatsworthestate since the 18th century, when theDuke of Devonshirebought Beeley Hill Top and then much of the property piecemeal. Beeley Old Hall dates from the 17th century. On School Lane there is an outdoor centre called Dukes Barn.
A village near this location was included in theDomesday Bookof 1086. At that time, it was owned byHenry de Ferrersand included ten villagers plus seven "smallholders".[2]One report describes the area in the early 1700s as: "it straggled across towards the river Derwent in front of Chatsworth, skirting the hill opposite the village known as 'The Crobbs'."[3]
In 1762 the 4th Duke of Devonshire ofChatsworth Housearranged for the demolition of several buildings because they intruded on his view of the parkland that had been created byCapability Brown. In the 1800s, a new road was being built and the Duke arranged to have the rest of the village removed. A new village was constructed in a project managed by SirJoseph Paxton; the earlier vicarage and an existing 18th-century inn were moved to the new site. One building of the old village, Park Cottage, was not removed. A church existed here in the 1100s but it was rebuilt and increased in size in the mid-1800s.[4][5][6]
A report published in 1870 stated that the village was "a pretty place of villa-cottages" and had a post office and an inn, as well as 123 houses". The population of the township, including the village, was 592.[7]
In 2019 some 575 people worked on the Chatsworth Estate which included the village.[8]This area has been the home of the Cavendish family since 1549.[9]
By the mid-1800s, Edensor was considered to be a "model village"; "rules were being enforced to preserve the appearance of the settlement".[4]The Chatsworth Estate office occupies a "fine brick building"[10]which was built as an inn for visitors to Chatsworth in the 18th century and attributed toJames Paine. As of 2021, 50 of the buildings in the village arelisted buildings, all Grade II (with a few at Grade II*) except for the Church of St Peter which is Grade I Listed.[11]
The village forms part of theChatsworth Estate; the ownership is held by The Chatsworth House Trust on behalf of the Cavendish family.[12]
Monsal Head
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Monsal Head, is a cluster of houses, pub and café that seem to bea satellite to the village of Little Longstone(which is also worth a visit), and here you will find fantastic, and dramatic views over the Wye Valley, and the Monsal Trail as it passes over the impressive five arched Headstone Viaduct.1 Jan 2021.
Monsal Dale is a valley inDerbyshire, England, in theWhite Peaklimestone area of thePeak District National Park. It is aSite of Special Scientific Interest(SSSI), aSpecial Area of Conservation(SAC) (1) and part of a Europe-wide network calledNatura 2000.
TheHeadstone Viaductwas built by theMidland Railwayover theRiver Wye. The bridge, which stands near the 533-yard (487m) Headstone Tunnel, is 300 feet (91m) long. It had five 50-foot (15m) span arches, some 70 feet (21m) high at the centre.[1][2]Initially, some slippage occurred, and remedial work was carried out in 1907–08.[3]
Whilst considered elegant today, with Grade II listed status being assigned to it in 1970,[4]when it was built in 1863 it was seen as destroying the beauty of the dale.John Ruskin, considered to be Britain's leading cultural critic, harshly criticised the building of the railway:
There was a rocky valley between Buxton and Bakewell, once upon a time, divine as the Vale of Tempe... You Enterprised a Railroad through the valley – you blasted its rocks away, heaped thousands of tons of shale into its lovely stream. The valley is gone, and the Gods with it; and now, every fool inBuxtoncan be inBakewellin half an hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton; which you think a lucrative process of exchange – you Fools everywhere.
—Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain[5]
A proposal that never came to fruition was for another viaduct for theLancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railwayto cross both the valley and the Midland Line, some three hundred feet high.[6]
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