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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Hoon Hall

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Burdett’s House, Full Street, Derby

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Grangefields, Trusley

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Ockbrook Manor

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Rose Hill, Chesterfield

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – The New Inn Derby

October 25, 2022 Alistair Plant

by Maxwell Craven I decided to take a break from country houses this month and mention a licensed house – not that I have run out of the former, but I felt a building as substantial as this merited inclusion, especially as it had a notable place in the history of local coaching and for […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Old Kedleston Hall by Maxwell Craven

September 29, 2022 Alistair Plant

No-one knows what the ancient hall at Kedleston looked like, except that it was built before 1198 by one the earlier Curzons, which family had inherited the estate by 1100 probably through marriage from the Domesday Book holder, Wulfbert, who held it from Henry de Ferrers. We do know, however, that a new house had […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Culland Hall

September 2, 2022 Alistair Plant

by Maxwell Craven It is perhaps quite a stretch to envisage the sheer antiquity of the site of Culland Hall, were you to visit the place today, the splendid gardens which are occasionally open to visitors and which are well worth visiting. Indeed, the present house is an agreeable neo-Georgian brick mansion, much in the […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – The New Hall Buxton by Maxwell Craven

July 26, 2022 Alistair Plant

From considerable prominence during the Roman period as Aquae Arnemetiae, Buxton drops from record almost completely (avoiding an entry in Domesday Book) until it re-surfaces as Bawkestanes in a document of 1108. Yet the hot springs and associated bathing facilities may well have survived and in use, if only informally, throughout the 600 or so […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Middleton – By – Youlegreave

June 29, 2022 Alistair Plant

As is the case with so many other of Derbyshire’s lost houses, the present Middleton Hall, at Middleton-by-Youlgreave, is a replacement, on another site in this case, of an earlier house. Indeed, there had been a manor house in Middleton from a relatively early date, for there had been a domestic chapel there before the […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – The Grove, Darley Dale

June 1, 2022 Alistair Plant

The name Alsop (with multitudinous variations of spelling) is by no means uncommon in Derbyshire, if only because it derives from an unique place name, Alsop-en-le-Dale, next to Parwich, just north of Ashbourne. The Alsops had a Norman or Norse ancestor, called Gamel (probably derived from the Latin for ‘twin’- gemellus), who took his name […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Lockett’s House Wardwick, Derby

April 26, 2022 Alistair Plant

The Wardwick is, even today, one of Derby’s most elegant streets; in Georgian times it was the bees’ knees as a place to live, despite having Markeaton Brook flowing along the back gardens of the houses on the north side and the Odd Brook as a meandering feature in the pleasure grounds of those on […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Eastwood Hall, Ashover

April 1, 2022 Alistair Plant

Ashover is a most interesting, beautiful and large parish in central Derbyshire, situated just south east of the main road from Matlock to Chesterfield (A632). The parish is home to several minor country houses – Eddlestow, Goss, Marsh Green and Stubben Edge Halls, not to mention Eastwood Grange – but also includes a lost house, […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Old Foremark Hall

February 27, 2022 Alistair Plant

The estate at Foremark, where once the invading Vikings over-wintered in 783-784, was granted to Nigel de Stafford,a (genuine) comrade-in-arms of the Conqueror and ancestor in the male line of the Stafford, Longford and Gresley families. His family’s later sub-tenant was a junior member of the powerful de Ferrers family, whence it passed through an […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Old Thornbridge Hall – Ashford in the Water

January 25, 2022 VickyP

Thornbridge was once part of the estate of the Longsdon family of Little Longstone, who claim a descent (never securely sorted out, but nevertheless highly likely) from Serlo de Longstone living around 1100 and, although the estate was held by that family (latterly spelling their name Longsdon) from the twelfth century until 1790, there seems […]