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Titchmarsh, Alan

Chatsworth : the gardens and the people who made them. / txt Alan Titchmarsh ; foreword by The Duke of Devonshire ; photography by Jonathan Buckley. - 288 p. : ill. ; col. ; photo. ; col. ; table ; 27 cm. book

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword 10 --
1 First Impressions 16 --
2 The Views and the Landscape 26 --
3 Bess of Hardwick 40 --
4 The Formal Gardens 50 --
5 Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown 62 --
6 The Water 72 --
7 James Paine 86 --
8 The Follies 94 --
9 Sir Jeffrey Wyatville and the Bachelor Duke 106 --
10 The Glasshouses 116 --
11 Sir Joseph Paxton 130 --
12 Deborah Devonshire 136 --
13 Arcadia 148 --
14 Tom Stuart Smith and Dan Pearson 160 --
15 The Rock Garden 168 --
16 Royalty and Chatsworth 180 --
17 The Arboretum and Pinetum 190 --
18 The 12th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire 204 --
19 The Ravine 214 --
20 Chatsworth Cricket Club 224 --
21 The Maze 230 --
22 Art Exhibitions in the Gardens 238 --
23 Sculpture 244 --
24 Shows and Fairs 252 --
25 The Kitchen and Cutting Garden 260 --
26 The Learning Centre 270 --
27 The Twenty First Century 272 --
The Cavendish Family: From Bess to Stoker 278 --
Acknowledgements 282 --
Bibliography 284 --
Index 285 --


Featuring stunning, specially commissioned photography of the gardens and parkland, alongside long-forgotten images and memorabilia newly unearthed in the estate archives, this vivid companion, crowded with character and colour, is a book to treasure and revisit over and over again

ISBN: 9781529148213 1529148219

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Chatsworth (England)--History
Chatsworth (Angleterre)--Histoire

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Historic gardens--England--Derbyshire
Architecture and Planning
Chatsworth (England)
Historic gardens
Architecture and Planning

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Derbyshire (England)--History
England--Derbyshire

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Illustrated works
Illustrated works
History

LC Class. No.: DA664.C36 / T58 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 712.60942513