Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Chatsworth. You may be able to find further references to Chatsworth in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Chatsworth parish Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Chatsworth within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 2: The Peak District 12
William Camden Nottinghamshire, Derby and Warwick 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 6, Part 2: Oxford, Bristol and Gloucester 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 7, Part 2: East Midlands 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 3: South and West Yorkshire 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland 1
Celia Fiennes 1697 Tour: Hull to Chatsworth 1
Thomas Pennant June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding 1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Edensor 0 2
Baslow 0 2
Beeley 0 2
Pilsley 0 2
Bubnell 0 1
Curbar 0 2
Hassop 0 2
Great Rowsley 0 2
Calver 0 2
Nether Haddon 1 2
Rowland 0 2
Bakewell 10 2
North Darley 0 2
Stanton 0 3
Darley 0 2
Stoke 0 2
Froggatt 0 2
Great Longstone 0 4
Brampton 0 3
Stony Middleton 0 3