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Chatsworth House is a large country house at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, England 3½ miles north east of Bakewell (GB Grid SK260700). It is the seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, and has been home to their family, the Cavendish family, since Bess of Hardwick settled at Chatsworth in 1549. Standing on the east bank of the River Derwent, Chatsworth looks across to the low hills that divide the Derwent and Wye valleys. The house is set in expansive parkland, and backed by wooded, rocky hills rising to heather moorland. Chatsworth's garden is one of the most famous in England. The house contains a unique collection of priceless paintings, furniture, Old Master drawings, neoclassical sculpture, books and other artefacts. Chatsworth has been selected as the United Kingdom's favourite country house several times. Chatsworth house has evolved over the centuries, shaped by generations of changing technologies and tastes. The main block of the house was re-built by the 1st Duke between 1687 and 1707, on the site of Bess of Hardwick's original Tudor mansion. The long north wing was added by the 6th Duke in the early nineteenth century. The house is built on sloping ground, lower on the north and west sides than on the south and east. Many more structures stand in Chatsworth's grounds: There are two surviving Elizabethan buildings, the Hunting Tower and Queen Mary's Bower. Flora's Temple and the 1st Duke's Greenhouse survive from the 1690s. The Stable block and bridge were built by James Paine in the 1760s. Joseph Paxton's Conservative Wall and other glasshouses date from the C19th. The 11th Duke and Duchess added the Display Greenhouse in 1970. There has been a house on the present site since the 1550s, but Chatsworth's history dates back to Anglo-Saxon times. The name could be a corruption of "Chetelsourde" meaning "Chetel's manor". Chetel was deposed after the Norman Conquest and Chatsworth ceased to be a large estate, until the 15th century when it was acquired by the Leche
