Exploring Chatsworth Stately Home & Gardens

[@neighborhoodcatlady6094]

I remember walking into Chatsworth from the bus stop. All the sheep were around me on the rolling hills. When leaving, saw the sheep again. All of a sudden, they all started to form single file lines and walk towards the house. No sound had been played, they all did it at the same time. Next time visited, asked about it. Workman told me that the sheep know when it is time to go back home. Amazing.

[@AdamExploresBritain]

Lovely anecdote, thanks :)

[@l.a.crenshaw5952]

I always wanted to have a tour in and around Chatsworth, and here you are doing it for me , realy fantastic , beautiful house and gardens , those people in those days realy knew how to create paradise on earth realy magnificent. Thank you so much!

[@AdamExploresBritain]

Glad to be of service haha. It's a lovely place and I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks again for your interest, Adam :)

[@simon54]

Thanks once again for another banging look at a beautiful house and estate. You really do look at everything and this time pointed out things I would have missed. Great job, well done.

[@AdamExploresBritain]

You're very welcome. I do try to explore as much as I can, where possible. Thanks again for taking an interest and for your lovely comment. Adam :)

[@Yet1moreUtuber]

One can only imagine the wealth and power, to be able to not only construct but to fully furnish a place such as this , I'm almost jealous.

[@AdamExploresBritain]

Yeah, top of the line this place. Like Blenheim, Castle Howard etc. Some of them (Blenheim) are almost too big though and totally lose any homely feel. That's what I thought when I visited several years ago anyway. I might give it another go in the future and see if my thoughts change about it. On the other hand I really enjoyed Castle Howard. Big fan of that place. Adam :)

[@arslongavitabrevis5136]

@@AdamExploresBritain Very good observation Adam, I fully agree with you, Blenheim is not a grand house like Chatsworth or Kedleston but a palace, that is why there is no homely feeling about it. In fact Blenheim´s full name is Blenheim Palace.

[@AdamExploresBritain]

@@arslongavitabrevis5136 Indeed! :)

[@NancyWind-zr8te]

Thanks for a great tour of Chatsworth and gardens! I recently discovered your videos and have watched many of them. Really enjoy your videos!

[@AdamExploresBritain]

You're very welcome, and I'm really glad you're enjoying my videos. It's very kind of you to let me know. It's very much appreciated, thanks, Adam :)

[@aalibasah2394]

Thanks, Adam. I am glad this House is well maintaned.❤😊

[@AdamExploresBritain]

Me too 😀 Thanks for joining me on my video tour :)

[@marksears1124]

Wonderful tour , thankyou ! Michigan USA

[@AdamExploresBritain]

You're very welcome! Thanks for watching all the way from the US of A and for leaving your nice comment. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Adam :)

[@jennicollins669]

Thanks for the lovely video. I had the good fortune to visit Chatsworth House some years back-a gorgeous place. Greetings from Downunder! J.

[@AdamExploresBritain]

Hello from England 😀 Good choice of place to visit, it's a real beauty. Thanks for watching and for your nice feedback, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Adam 🙂

[@wendy-t7l6e]

Lovely tour - nice info -- good watch - Thanks appreciated- Awesome Chatsworth- the water and Joseph Paxton - Wonderful

[@AdamExploresBritain]

Thanks for your kind comments, and thanks a lot for watching. I'm really glad you enjoyed it, Adam :)

[@ajadrew]

Yes, that's Mercury at 25:46 & I'm an old Mercurian which means I used to attend The Royal Pinner School, long since closed. The entwined snakes etc were our coat of arms, school badge. The Bird & Branch wall paper is really nice & that's a great painting at 30:11 though I'm wondering where the painter stood to get that perspective? The Sculpture Gallery is superb as are all the interiors & not overpowering at all. The gardens are beautifully understated & your trusty old camcorder is good - I'm guessing its analog as opposed to digital? The Rock Gardens are very impressive (though somewhat higgely piggely in the sense you can tell it's made by man) & the Cascade looks good in your old clips - that's a lot of money need to repair it! I like the moss covered rocks below The Willow Tree Fountain but on first impressions, the 'tree' looked dead but was made up by the Coal Tunnel for the Conservatory that once was. I like the Ravine & the colourful statue in the Grotto & the Salisbury lawns from 1:14:00 down to the old Greenhouse are what I mean by understated as is The Tower at the end - "To watch the Hunt" - Love it!!! Great video 👍😊

[@AdamExploresBritain]

Thanks again. For the lovely painting at 30:11, the artist must have been stood over somewhat towards the rustic summerhouse at the top of the hill, beyond the temple at the top of the modern day cascade. Somewhere around that area where I was venturing at the top of the hill towards the end of exploring the gardens. The painting makes it look more flat though, I think. And yes, the sculpture gallery surely has to be one of the must-see rooms in this place. Worth lingering for a while and taking it all in. My camcorder is actually digital, but it's one of the early HD digital ones that actually look like an old camcorder and has a very good optical zoom. I've kept it as it is really useful in some situations (usually handy every few videos for very long shots to visually explain something). It's the panasonic HC-X800. They're probably really cheap if you can find them now, but they're super handy for zoom shots. They're no good for walking etc as there will be too much shake, but just simply for stationary zooming they're useful. I was very very impressed with the rock garden and when in use the cascade is (for myself) one of the best sights on a country estate in the UK, very easily. It's absolutely beautiful. Thanks again for your feedback, it's always appreciated, Adam :)

[@AdamExploresBritain]

...and as for the view from 30:11, the house would have later been extended to the right of the picture over where the water garden (or whatever it was) previously was. The gardens here notoriously were moved around and tampered with quite extensively. It all makes sense when you see how it changed during the 19th century (the painting must have been from the 18th century at some point, probably).

[@ajadrew]

@@AdamExploresBritain Cheers for explaining the artists pov... & I'm surprised the camcorder is digital due to pixels versus the amount of range available but I don't really know enough. But I do know I was searching for something of that nature a few years ago for zooming in on wildlife 👍

[@ajadrew]

@@AdamExploresBritain It all makes increased sense, thank you -

[@mountain2816]

Isn’t it the house for Mitford family ?

[@AdamExploresBritain]

Apparently the last of the Mitford sisters married into the family and became Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire :)