Haddon Hall is my favorite among the scores of historic houses I’ve visited in England. It was saved from the destructive fate of so many houses, updating, by the benign neglect of it’s owners. They liked their other houses better. Consequently, it’s remained more like it’s original self, dating from the 11th century, than any other building of the Middle Ages in England.
I toured the house one day during a week’s stay in Derbyshire. A less-than-interested friend dropped me off on her way to do some shopping in nearby Bakewell and I couldn’t have been happier.
Read more about the great house’s history and it’s use, interior and exterior, as a setting for a number of movies.
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I love the gardens of the place! Were they expansive?
As you may know, DrF, a number of houses in the UK are known as much or more for their gardens as for the houses. Not so in this case, although what they have sets the house off perfectly. The rest is more natural landscape as you can see in the bottom picture. I love the fact that the house is the star, as it should be in this case, and the gardens are a compliment.