Chatsworth: A Landscape History

The seat of the Cavendish family since 1549, Chatsworth is more than a great country house: it is one of Europe's finest designed landscapes. This book tells the story of Chatsworth's gardens and park, a grand, thousand-year narrative that takes us from a small Domesday settlement to Elizabeth Frink's sculpture of a stallion, set proudly at the head of the Canal Pond.

John Barnatt and Tom Williamson show how Chatsworth's history is like a tapestry. Particular individuals -for instance…