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Chatsworth House is an impressive stately home and estate. It is the seat of the Duke of Devonshire and his family, as well as comprising farmland, villages and more.

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When we returned to Chatsworth, it was before Christmas and a number of the rooms were impressively decorated and remodelled to represent scenes from the C.S. Lewis book, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

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The gardens and grounds are kept beautifully and whilst some of it is quite typical and historically in keeping, other parts are distinctly landscaped with an interesting character.

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