The history of Langley, just north west of Derby on the road to Ashbourne, is complex to say the least....
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At Romeley, one gets two lost houses for the price of one. The early history of Romeley (or Romiley) in...
A great friend who is the senior caseworker for the Georgian Group, was asked by the City Council to comment...
Some castles grew from purely Norman military motte-and-bailey castles, constructed by William the Conqueror’s knights to keep a firm hold...
The stone shell of the gatehouse to site of the ancient seat of the Mackworth family is one of the...
The Glossop Hall that was demolished in 1958-59 was an unlovely house of titanic proportions, once set in a spectacular...
Spondon House was a fine Georgian mansion, in reality a secondary seat on the Locko estate of the Drury Lowes....
Until the local government reforms of 1888-1889 Derbyshire did not sit inside a single boundary; it has detached ‘islands’, mainly...
Francis Meynell (1698-1768) was a member of what was, in the early eighteenth century, a younger branch of the great...
One of my oldest friends is a great enthusiast for huge spiky Gothic Victorian country houses. He thinks Samuel...
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by Brian Spencer A quick look at the Ordnance Survey 1:25000 scale map of the White Peak shows that the...
Hardstoft and Astwith lie atop a pair of west-east ridges, with the Dawley stream rising in between and running down...
by Brian Spencer “What we see today is basically the unaltered fortified manor house developed between the late 12th century,...
by Brian Spencer It is wrong to suggest that the Industrial Revolution began in and around the Derwent Valley, but...
