Imagine Relaxing in 4 Star Luxury and the chance to unwind with adventure on your doorstep. Here we provide directions from one of the many fascinating places of interest in the peak district area Chatsworth Park. Full description continued below.

Getting to Darwin Lake Cottages from Chatsworth Park

About Chatsworth Park
Chatsworth is the hub of a 35,000 acres (140 km2) agricultural estate. The Chatsworth estate, together with 30,000 acres (120 km2) around Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire (mostly moorland) and some land in Eastbourne, belongs to The Trustees of Chatsworth Settlement, a family trust established in 1946.

The Duke and other members of the family are entitled to the income. The family's 8,000 acres (32 km2) Lismore Castle estate in Ireland is held in a separate trust. The estate includes dozens of tenanted farms and over 450 houses and flats.

The park is open to the public free of charge, other than parking costs. Public footpaths also pass through the woods above the house. The attitudes of the Dukes regarding wider access rights have changed significantly over the years.

Upon his death, in 2004, the Ramblers Association praised the 11th Duke for his enlightened championing of open access, as well as his apologies for the attitude of the 10th Duke, who had restricted access to much estate land.

Even during the 11th Duke's tenure, however, disputes arose when the definitive rights of way were being compiled in the 1960s and 70s, the footpath to the Swiss Cottage (an isolated house by one of the lakes in the woods) was contested, and the matter went to the High Court, making Derbyshire one of the last counties to settle its definitive maps.

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