Derbyshire’s Finest… towns and stately homes

The title ‘Derbyshire’s Finest’ can only cover one person’s subjective view. Here, to launch our new series, retired headteacher David Fearnehough offers his own view of some of the very best of our county’s towns and stately homes.

I REALISED WHAT A DIFFICULT TASK it would be when I started trying to decide what was Derbyshire’s finest stately home. When we have visitors from another part of the country and we ask them what they would like to see in the county, they normally say Alton Towers. When I have gently told them that it’s in Staffordshire, their next answer is Chatsworth…