There is “no finer county in England than Derbyshire” and “all the the celebrated beauties of Chatsworth, Dovedale and the Peaks.” – Jane Austen
7:45 Breakfast at Hassop Station B&B
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The B&B has a Cafe up the road a bit, and we got take away breakfast on our way out.
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| We ate breakfast in the car at Chatsworth House - bagel with avocado and sundried tomatoes |
The plan was to drive ten minutes, but we got so lost, it was more like 40 minutes. We definitely took the scenic route. We even went miles up a one-lane farm road and couldn't turn around until we got to a huge cow pasture. I was so grateful a car or tractor didn't come toward us on that road!
10:30 Chatsworth House tour
"The rooms were lofty and handsome, and their furniture suitable to the fortune of its proprietor; but Elizabeth saw, with admiration of his taste, that it was neither gaudy nor uselessly fine; with less splendour, and more real elegance, than the furniture of Rosings. 'And of this place,' thought she, 'I might have been mistress!'" - -Pride and Prejudice
LINK for YouTube video of when Elizabeth visits Pemberley
The driving approach to this estate was out of this world. We could see the house in the distance as we drove through beautiful green lawns, past huge trees and fields of sheep.
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| Tourist entrance |
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| The entrance hall in the movie. So fun to see it! |
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| Every room had so much to look at, there was no way to really take it all in. |
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| Mom was invited to play the piano in the library just outside the dining room. So fun |
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| View of the grounds from one of the windows |
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| Rich people and businesses rent out this room for fancy dinners. Wowzers |
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| Yes, this house has its own sculpture garden. Another well-known room from the movie! |
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| My favorite |
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| The bust from the movie of Matthew McFadden a.k.a. Mr. Darcy |
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| Fancy tile in the toilet |
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| Pemberley's own tree tunnel. This is the lane that the Gardner's carriage drove down in the 2005 movie. |
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| We got our first rain just in time to tour the grounds of Pemberley. It was beautiful but we kept it short because pushing a wheelchair in the rain on dirt paths is a bit tricky and Mom wasn't fond of getting wet. |
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| Such a beautiful estate. It's hard to believe a family actually still lives here. |
We had planned on seeing Lyme Park, where they filmed the outside of Pemberley in the 1995 Colin Firth P&P, but Mom had had enough rain. And I wasn't sad to have an hour and 40 min less to drive.
We drove two hours to a Super Tesco and bought petrol, fruit, Hobnobs, Maltesers, water bottles, and wooden cutlery. LINK to "Big Tesco" video that Taylor and I love LOL
We stopped for dinner at The Windmill Inn. I don't even know how I knew it existed, but we were happy we found it because Mom finally got her genuine British fish and chips and mushy peas!
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| 10/10 on the fish and chips. Not so much on the mushy peas ;) |
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| My Salmon cakes. Super good 👌 |
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| Mind your head, love |
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We tried to find Shakespeare's birthplace, but discovered you can't drive by it. We did manage to find Anne Hathaway's cottage, however. Love that thatched roof.
One flight of stairs, right by a petrol station. Check-in is before 8:00pm
Green Haven Guesthouse
Confirmation #3707988741
Tel: 44 1789 551146
This place was so tiny, we had to rearrange furniture just to put mom's suitcase out. It also had the smallest sink we've ever seen. And the worst mattresses of the trip by far. The night was kinda terrible.
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| They squeezed 6 rooms into this small upstairs |
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| Skipped some of this and came down closer to Nottingham |
