Talk:Chatsworth House/Archive 1

Expansion
This is just a note on the sections I am planning to expand or add, mainly intended as a checklist for myself. Oliver Chettle 14:36, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

History - key phases all now done Interiors: The collections The stables - now done The farmyard The park and woods The estate - now done Visitors' Chatsworth (mainly history)
 * The 1st Duke's
 * The 6th Duke's
 * The private rooms

The garden alone came in at over 2,100 words, but I'll try to get it all done over the next few weeks.

Photo request
This article is in need of some more and better illustrations. I'm sure someone who will read it will be visiting this summer, so please take and upload some photos if you can. There's enough text to accompany quite a few, and I will be adding more, so it would be great to have a selection along the lines of:
 * The West Front, perhaps incorporating Paine's bridge
 * The South Front
 * The canal and fountains
 * The cascade
 * Revelation
 * The rockery
 * Some attractive corner of the woodland gardens
 * The stables
 * The hunting lodge
 * Some interiors (unusually photography is permitted if I remember rightly) eg, painted hall, state dining room, chapel, dining room, sculpture gallery.

And of course anything else catches your eye. It will be great if someone can do this. Oliver Chettle 22:10, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Chatsworth & Rights of Way
I've put in something about the Chatsworth estate's retroguard fight over the RoW on the Derbyshire definitive footpath map. This is based on bitter experience (I well remember three of us being marched back down the hill by a red-nosed bailiff with a blackthorn! If it reads too PoV then we'll hack :-) Linuxlad 19:28, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Maybe I have the wrong place, but was there not some big trouble with the Dukes of Devonshire and trespassing ramblers in the 1930, with mass arrests, or was this some other Duke? Giano | talk 18:22, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

No, I think the present Duke's great-grandfather was one of those who opposed the Kinder trespass (see the Ramblers Association for praise for the more enlightened attitude of his grandson (who died in 2004) in supporting 'right to roam'). Many of the Derbyshire Moors had strong proprietary shooting rights up until ww2, and shutting of the Northern Moors for shooting was carried on post-war under the Peak Park's control. My own particular 'run-in' was in the 70s and was over a disputed RoW over farmland, not moorland. Such disputes were fairly common, I recollect, in areas with strong landed interests, as the definitive footpath map neared conclusion,. Bob aka Linuxlad 20:59, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I think this is one of the best Wikipedia articles on a country house, but I do think the paragraph: "The Dukes of Devonshire have traditionally been welcoming of visitors" is misleading.  They have not -  unless it suited their own pockets, and there is nothing wrong with that - why should they?  I know in previous ages well dressed strangers were admitted to most country houses so long as they were clean and tipped the housekeeper, but this is not quite the same as having the hoi-polloi marching over the front lawn and the grouse moor.  Andrew and Deborah Devonshire did amazing things to Chatsworth and the paying, viewing public have benefited enormously but as a whole the Dukes of Devonshire have not welcomed visitors in the sense the article implies.  The public road is maintained (like the one which runs through Woburn Deer Park) by the local authority, and the public footpaths exist by historical right not the munificence of the Devonshires. Giano | talk 08:57, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Trivia removal
With such a well-organised article, would it not make sense to integrate the two trivia entries (or random fact, as the original addition had it)? Only problem is, whilst the Pride and Prejudice filming is mentioned on the official Chatsworth website, I don't see anything about being licensed to celebrate marriages, whether in the house, in the gardens, or on the estate generally. I can find a number of "located on the Chatsworth estate" places with Google, but that's not quite the same thing. So is the comment about marrying at Chatsworth House actually a fact at all? I know it says so in the Michael Vaughan article, but that's all. I'm now so unsure that I have removed the trivia section to here for the time being.


 * Chatsworth House was used in the recent remake of the film Pride and Prejudice.
 * England cricket captain Michael Vaughan and his Irish childhood sweetheart Nichola Shannon got married at Chatsworth House on 27 September 2003.

..for someone more knowledgeable about Chatsworth to deal with.

--Telsa (talk) 13:56, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Distance from Bakewell
I appreciate the desire to be more accurate, and Chatsworth is certainly more significantly east of Bakewell than it is north; but do we really add anything useful by saying "approx" and "north east"? I thought the first edit today (...3½ miles east of Bakewell...) was best, by erring on the side of clarity than perfect precision. --VinceBowdren 18:33, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

"Winter on the Chatsworth Estate"
The last time I checked, oak trees didn't have leaves in winter... Gunstar hero (talk) 01:03, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Chatsworth needs copy subbing
This article needs to be written.

As someone has earlier noted, the intro is lousy, it's like reading a travel brochure and many sections of just ramble. Secondly the tone wanders between the formal to the informal (with plenty of weasel words and opinion). Also the grammar can't make its mind up whether to be active or passive.

This article has a lot of potential but it needs a tight rein to mould it into shape. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.147.154.164 (talk) 10:35, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Do you want the whole article re-written or sections? Bladeofgrass (talk) 22:38, 4 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Needs thorough referencing as well. I've just put it on the list of "top importance" architecture articles, as one of the most significant pieces of domestic architecture in England. Amandajm (talk) 12:32, 12 October 2009 (UTC)