Places of interest Derby – Country Images Magazine

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Parkfields, Derby

May 1, 2024 VickyP

by Maxwell Craven A notable surge in prosperity in Derby during the Napoleonic wars and afterwards, led to the building of nearly a dozen Regency villas on the fringes, in the suburbs and in the immediate area of the borough, of varying size and quality. Most were built by prosperous merchants and a few by […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Morley Old Hall

July 25, 2023 Alistair Plant

For somewhere so close to Derby, and somewhere which was once on the very edge of a coal-mining area, Morley is today a remarkably sequestered spot. The village is discrete, as the archaeologists say – not nucleated, but scattered around its parish – but with a magnificent parish church, a very grand Georgian rectory and […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Greenhill Hall, Norton

September 26, 2019 VickyP

When I write about Derbyshire, I do tend to stick to the historic borders of the County, the land of which has been eroded (and less generously replenished) ever since County Councils were first formed in 1888. Although we have gained the Seals (Over and Nether) in the south and Fernilee to the north west, […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Devonshire House, Derby

September 4, 2018 VickyP

A great friend who is the senior caseworker for the Georgian Group, was asked by the City Council to comment on an application to convert the upper floors of 35, Cornmarket into flats. Our own Conservation Area Advisory committee, which until recently I chaired, had already questioned the applicant’s desire to remove the surviving staircase […]