Derbyshire Sites

A few weekends ago, we ventured up north to Derbyshire to visit a few English Heritage sites. In addition to visiting Bolsover Castle (shown in the post below), we visited a couple of smaller sites containing ruins of some stately English homes. 

SUTTON SCARSDALE HALL

English Heritage describes this site as follows: "The imposing shell of a grandiose Georgian mansion built in 1724-29, with an immensely columned exterior. Roofless since 1919, when its interiors were dismantled and some exported to America: but there is still much to discover within, including traces of sumptuous plasterwork."

(Above) Lucas can't ever avoid jumping in puddles

(Above) Our van at the rear side of the building.

HARDWICK OLD HALL

An old manor house built in the mid-1500s belonging to one of the richest, well-known women of Elizabethan England. 

(Above) The skeletal ruins of the old hall. Some of the fireplace sculptures are still there (preserved by the metal flaps that deflect rainwater).

(L) A big sculpture above a fireplace. (R) Harmony, Noelle, and Lucas down below. Lucas was initially too tired to climb the stairs with Jack & I, but later joined us when he saw us looking down from above.

(Above) A view of the "New Hardwick Hall," which was later built by the same rich woman. Since this was not an English Heritage site, we didn't go in. We were feeling a bit to cheap to pay the steep entrance fee.

(Above) Great view from the top of the old hall of the Derbyshire countryside.