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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Rough Heanor Manor

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Old Radburne Hall

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Old Walton Hall, Chesterfield

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Kirk Hallam

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Hoon Hall

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Stretton House

April 18, 2021 VickyP

Stretton, along with Measham and Appleby Parva (for the lost houses at which see Country Images December 2019 and October 2020), lay within a large ‘island’ of Derbyshire, separated since Saxon times from the bulk of the county, itself created in the mid-10th century. This ‘island’ also included Oakthorpe, Donisthorpe, Chilcote and Willesley (see Country […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Willington House

February 23, 2021 VickyP

I think I am right in saying that Willington House must rank as Derbyshire’s most recent lost house. At any rate, if there have been subsequent casualties, I would be pleased to hear from anyone who can tell me about them. Willington House – never the sort of architectural set piece to send the pulses […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Stretton-in-Shirland

February 15, 2021 VickyP

It is entirely through the thorough researches undertaken by Gladwyn Turbutt that we have a good, comprehensive history of this lost house and its occupants. Derbyshire historian Stephen Glover wrote in around 1832 that the house overlooked ‘one of the finest valleys in the county’ and if you were to go to our excellent Museum […]

Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Appleby Hall

September 23, 2020 VickyP

It is astonishing how many country houses and estates were lost to Derbyshire in the boundary adjustments of 1888 and 1936; in this column we have visited several, including Measham and Willesley Hall, Norton House, Hazlebarrow with others. As they had been part of Derbyshire for about 900 years prior to their unwilling transfer, I […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Cockpit Hill House, Derby

August 25, 2020 VickyP

‘On the west side of the Mill Stream is a good house, built by Mr. Beardsley – on the side of a hill on which was formerly a castle still called Castle Hill, but by others Cockpit Hill.’ Written in 1713, William Woolley, Derbyshire’s first historian, of Cockpit Hill House. This enigmatic building suffers from having […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Hazelbarrow Hall, Eckington

March 27, 2020 Alistair Plant

Like Norton, about which I wrote last year, Hazelbarrow – part of Norton in my opinion, but according to Historic England belonging to Eckington – is one of those places which were included in the considerable chunk of our county which was appropriated by the City of Sheffield in 1936 to boost rate income. Hazelbarrow […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Allen Hill, Matlock

February 25, 2020 Alistair Plant

As you proceed out of Matlock going north you will pass on your right the end of Dimple Road, which rises vertiginously up the steepish hillside. Some way up you might just miss Allen Hill a narrow road leading down into a mass of 1960s housing and rising out on the other side as little […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – New Hall, Castleton

January 30, 2020 VickyP

When Mick Stanley and I were researching the first edition of The Derbyshire Country House around 1980 our attention was drawn by a colleague of Mick’s at the Derbyshire Museum Service (of blessed memory) to an item in a north Derbyshire auction. Provenanced from a vendor in Buxton, this was a fine oak 17th century […]

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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Norton House, Norton

January 7, 2020 VickyP

‭‬For any reader who missed my description of Greenhill Hall‭, ‬I ought to repeat that although Norton is today a fully integrated suburb of Sheffield‭, ‬this has only been the case since 1936‭, ‬when the Sheffield Council‭, ‬greedy to boost rate income‭, ‬managed‭ ‬to obtain a large chunk of NE Derbyshire during the local government […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Measham Hall

November 25, 2019 VickyP

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‭W‬ell informed readers might be tempted to say‭, ‬on seeing the subject of this article‭, ‬that Measham is not in Derbyshire at all‭, ‬which seems all wrong in view of the fact that we try to present histories of lost‭ ‬Derbyshire‭ ‬houses‭. ‬All it not quite as it seems‭, ‬however‭, ‬as Measham was until 1897‭ […]