Perhaps the greatest influence on the Chatsworth estate gardens was a man named Joseph Paxton. Paxton began his gardening life as a laborer in the Horticultural Society gardens. [citation] Continue reading
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Visiting Mr. Darcy’s Mansion
Well, not exactly, though it’s said that Jane Austen may have “based her idea of Pemberley on Chatsworth House”:
The eye was instantly caught by Pemberley House, situated on the opposite side of the valley into which the road into some abruptness wound. Continue reading