Following the footsteps of Elizabeth Bennett, we journied to the Peaks district. It's an area in Derbyshire about 200 miles north of London. Unfortunately, our weather wasn't sunny and our pictures don't do justice to how beautiful it is.
Malcolm toured us around for 2 days while Delyth attended her meetings. Yesterday, we went to Chatsworth, the home of the Dukes of Devonshire. The "Pride and Prejudice" movie - not the wonderful TV series with Colin Firth - was filmed here. Now, this house is a long way from Devon but when the hardworking Bess of Hardwicke earned a title for her husband from Henry VIII, the Earl of Derby was already taken. The Earl of Devon was open
Today, we visited the village of Eyam, known as the Plague Village. In 1665, the Bubonic Plague was killing the citizens of London. The villages in Derbyshire thought they were far enough away but in 1665, a tailor in Eyam took delivery of material from London. It was full of the fleas that were spreading the disease. The tailor was dead within days. After several others in the village died, the minister realized what was happening and persuaded the village to isolate itself so that the plague wouldn't be spread throughout Derbyshire. A boundary was drawn around the village. Food was left by other villages on boundary stones. By the end of 1666, when the village was declared plague free, 260 people, a third of the village, had died. But the plague hadn't spread.
Malcolm toured us around for 2 days while Delyth attended her meetings. Yesterday, we went to Chatsworth, the home of the Dukes of Devonshire. The "Pride and Prejudice" movie - not the wonderful TV series with Colin Firth - was filmed here. Now, this house is a long way from Devon but when the hardworking Bess of Hardwicke earned a title for her husband from Henry VIII, the Earl of Derby was already taken. The Earl of Devon was open
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