Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth

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Bakewell
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Organisations (12)

Persons (143)

Families (10)

  • Boyle family, Earls of Burlington and Cork Lismore, County Waterford;Dungarvan, County Waterford;Youghal, County Cork
  • Burton and Wilson families of Eastbourne Eastbourne, Sussex
  • Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire Latimer, Buckinghamshire;Carlisle, Cumberland;Castle Sowerby, Cumberland;Penrith, Cumberland;Ashford, Derbyshire;Baslow, Derbyshire;Birchover, Derbyshire;Buxton, Derbyshire;Chatsworth, Derbyshire;Hardwick, Derbyshire;Hartington, Derbyshire;High Peak, Derbyshire;Monsall Dale, Derbyshire;Pentrich, Derbyshire;Shottle, Derbyshire;Staveley, Derbyshire;Winster, Derbyshire;Sawtry, Huntingdonshire;Brindle, Lancashire;Cartmel Fell, Lancashire;Holker, Lancashire;Inskip, Lancashire;Muchland, Lancashire;Barrowby, Lincolnshire;London;Chiswick, Middlesex;Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire;Long Sutton, Somerset;Pitney, Somerset;Wearne, Somerset;Ecton, Staffordshire;Whiston, Staffordshire;Compton Place, Sussex;Eastbourne, Sussex;Polegate, Sussex;Wilmington, Sussex;Appletreewick, Yorkshire;Baldersby, Yorkshire;Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire;Dore, Yorkshire;Keighley, Yorkshire;Londesborough, Yorkshire;Market Weighton, Yorkshire;Skipton, Yorkshire;Staincliffe, Yorkshire;Wetherby, Yorkshire;Youghal, County Cork;Dungarvan, County Waterford;Lismore, County Waterford
  • Clifford family, Earls of Cumberland Skelton, Cumberland;Appleby, Westmorland;Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire;Londesborough, Yorkshire;Skipton, Yorkshire
  • Compton family, Marquesses of Northampton Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire;Moulsoe, Buckinghamshire;Callington, Cornwall;Callyland, Cornwall;Buckland Filleigh, Devon;Cotleigh, Devon;Manaton, Devon;Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire;Hurstbourne, Hampshire;Fen Stanton, Huntingdonshire;Hilton, Huntingdonshire;Erith, Kent;Great Dalby, Leicestershire;Canonbury, Middlesex;Clerkenwell, Middlesex;Ecton, Northamptonshire;Great Doddington, Northamptonshire;Long Sutton, Somerset;Pitney, Somerset;Wearne, Somerset;Chelsham, Surrey;Tandridge, Surrey;Compton Place, Sussex;Eastbourne, Sussex;Wilmington, Sussex;Compton Wynyates, Warwickshire;Whatcote, Warwickshire;Torloisk, Argyllshire;Kirkness, Kinross-shire;Dingwall, Ross and Cromarty;Lochluichart, Ross and Cromarty
  • Douglas-Hamilton family, Dukes of Hamilton and Brandon Arbroath, Angus;Arran, Buteshire;Brodick, Buteshire;Stronach, Buteshire;Lennoxlove, East Lothian;North Uist, Inverness-shire;Avondale, Lanarkshire;Crawford, Lanarkshire;Dungavel, Lanarkshire;Hamilton, Lanarkshire;Holyrood House, Midlothian;Neilston, Renfrewshire;Polmont, Stirlingshire;Bo'ness, West Lothian;Kinneil, West Lothian;Weddicar, Cumberland;Ashton, Lancashire;Nether Wyresdale, Lancashire;Scotforth, Lancashire;Chelsea, Middlesex;Westminster, Middlesex;Bath, Somerset;Gerrard's Bromley, Staffordshire;Sandon, Staffordshire;Butley, Suffolk;Easton, Suffolk;Great Glemham, Suffolk;Holbrook, Suffolk;Rendlesham, Suffolk;Fonthill, Wiltshire;Milford, Wiltshire;Woodford, Wiltshire;Beckford, Worcestershire
  • Lumley-Savile family, Barons Savile Bolderstone, Derbyshire;Brancepeth, Durham;Foulridge, Lancashire;Barrowby, Lincolnshire;Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire;Bilsthorpe, Nottinghamshire;Laxton, Nottinghamshire;Mansfield, Nottinghamshire;Ollerton, Nottinghamshire;Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire;Wellow, Nottinghamshire;Barkisland, Yorkshire;Bradfield, Yorkshire;Dewsbury, Yorkshire;Ecclesfield, Yorkshire;Heptonstall, Yorkshire;Hunsworth, Yorkshire;Sheffield, Yorkshire;Stainland, Yorkshire;Thornhill, Yorkshire;Wadsworth, Yorkshire;Newtown Savile, County Tyrone
  • Russell family, Dukes of Bedford Ampthill, Bedfordshire;Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire;Oakley, Bedfordshire;Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire;Chenies, Buckinghamshire;Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire;Shingay, Cambridgeshire;Thorney, Cambridgeshire;Calstock, Cornwall;Stoke Climsland, Cornwall;Plymstock, Devon;Tavistock, Devon;Kingston Russell, Dorset;Maiden Newton, Dorset;Swyre, Dorset;Micheldever, Hampshire;Stratton, Hampshire;Hitchin, Hertfordshire;Sibson cum Stibbington, Huntingdonshire;Beckenham, Kent;Rotherhithe, Surrey;Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire;Bloomsbury, Middlesex;Covent Garden, Middlesex;Streatham, Surrey;Tooting, Surrey;Wandsworth, Surrey;Helgay, Norfolk;Thornhaugh, Northamptonshire;Wansford, Northamptonshire;Easton Bavents, Suffolk;Cheam, Surrey;Ewell, Surrey;Hadnock, Monmouthshire;Southery, Norfolk;Aspley Heath, Bedfordshire;Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire;Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire;Eversholt, Bedfordshire
  • Savile family, Marquesses of Halifax Bolderstone, Derbyshire;Barrowby, Lincolnshire;Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire;Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire;Bradfield, Yorkshire;Ecclesfield, Yorkshire;Sheffield, Yorkshire;Thornhill, Yorkshire;Wadsworth, Yorkshire
  • Thwaites family of Thwaites Thwaites, Yorkshire;Denton, Yorkshire

Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (3)

  • NRA 20594 Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire: family and estate papers
  • NRA 29337 Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire: Lismore, co Waterford, estate papers
  • NRA 722 Holme-next-the-Sea deeds

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