Chatsworth House, Eyam Plague Village, Bakewell and beyond!

June 24, 2011

Chatsworth House, Eyam Plague Village, Bakewell and beyond!

We were very privileged to have the run of the Chatsworth Estate for a week. The kind fisherman (with licence) caught us a trout on the estate, I wanted him to throw it back, it was funny because we had to get it past the gamekeeper, it was a slippery blighter, it kept falling out of the bag onto the floor haha. We visited Bakewell famous for its tarts, (not the red light ones lol) also went the Eyam which is a famous plague village, probably haunted too. These photos are both HDR (high dynamic range photography) and faux HDR. Click on pics for larger view.

Chatsworth Estate (HDR)

Chatsworth Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned here, it was part of the water garden (HDR)

Capability Browns superb gardens at Chatsworth (HDR)

Chatsworth House in the evening light

Bess of Hardwick

Location: Chatsworth (Derbyshire) - Chatsworth House
Type: Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Late twentieth century?
Further Comments: Bess, who finished constructing her home around 1560, is one of several shades to haunt this house. Mary Queen of Scots is rumoured to walk where she was once held captive, while a grey lady and a white woman haunt other parts of the building. The library is haunted by a transparent figure which drifts from shelf to shelf. The bridge on the grounds is haunted by a screaming woman who was forced to watch her baby drowned after it was thrown into the river by her partner.

Fisherman who caught our trout in the evening light, Chatsworth.

I've caught three do you want one? I've got enough, fisherman catches us a trout in the late evening at Chatsworth. I wanted him to throw it back in, I felt guilty. I'm certainly no Bear Grylls!!

Be nice for thee tea that one, d'ya want it gutting? A night fisherman catches us a trout in the river in the Chatsworth estate.
It was delicious but with a hint of gilt.

Shady sheep at Chatsworth

Painterly view - Chatsworth Estate

Dog sculptures in the private section of the house (the one on the far right is having a doo?)

Entrance to the maze

The only thatched cottage in Derbyshire (Baslow)

Baslow village near Chatsworth

Passion Flower, photographed in the hot hot hot its blooming hot in here hot house lol

Cane sculpture, there were loads of these up and down the estate wrapped around trees and walls, some lady artist cant remember her name.

Bakewell, River Wye

Trout? In the River Wye, photographed from the main bridge

Bakewell is gorgeous

The sausage shop ;)

Plague Cottages, Eyam (Prounounced Eem as in stream)

Eyam Hall

Famous shops, Bakewell

Plague Cottage

Very very very old celtic cross

Plague cottages and graveyard

Ghost Story writer.

Old cottage, Eyam

Haunting Manifestation
Date / Time: Unknown
Further Comments: Said to haunt the upper area of the building, the old man could be one of the many plague victims from 1665. A white horse also haunts the grounds.