Day 14 Tuesday November 1st Chatsworth and Edensor

Chatsworth House

 Each day in the Peak District we planned to have a different theme.  Today we had decided to visit

rear view of house

 the stately home of Chatsworth House.  We had been past the house previously but not visited it.  We had learnt that the house itself would not be open because of Christmas preparations but we were happy to see the grounds.  

East aspect of house

The pictures will tell or story.  We went to the kitchen garden where they supply veg and flowers to the house.  We saw the 

kitchen garden

cascade and fountain, had a coffee and then found the interesting coal tunnel.  To heat the house required an awful lot of fuel and a tunnel was dug with its small train to transport the coal out of sight of the house.  The boiler fumes were also channelled away from sight.

the maze

  

jungle explorer

cascade

fountain

coal tunnel

newly gilded gates

We spent a long time touring all the parts of the garden and had a good interesting time, we thought if we had the house to go round as well it would have been too much.  We photographed the newly gilded main gates which were also impressive.

 After this experience we went to the village of Edensor which was a small village moved in the 1800s because it was in the line of sight of the house.  All the buildings in the new village were of a different design.  The church which was also Victorian was a well kept active witness in the small community.  It was drizzling and we left the gated village to make our way back to base. 

Edensor house with tower

house with narrow window

church interior