How the Cavendish property portfolio has changed…

We resume our ‘Then & Now’ series by looking at the radical changes to the properties outside Derbyshire owned by the Cavendish family through the centuries. Patrick Coleman reports.

IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT to live in Derbyshire without knowing something about the Cavendish family. For nearly 500 years they’ve dominated the county’s history from their famous house at Chatsworth…