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Hardwick Hall

British  
/ ˈhɑːdwɪk /

noun

  1. an Elizabethan mansion near Chesterfield in Derbyshire: built 1591–97 for Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury (Bess of Hardwick)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Hardwick Hall, near Chesterfield in Derbyshire, will host the exhibition called Bess's Dream from Saturday until 30 October.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

Against all the odds, the Devonshire estates remained remarkably intact, though Hardwick Hall was given to the National Trust.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2014

It took 17 years to clear the debt, with failed appeals to the high court and the sale of Rembrandts, a Poussin and superfluous ancestral accommodation, including Hardwick Hall, also in Derbyshire.

From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2014

They resolved to save Chatsworth by selling a second 16th-century palace, Hardwick Hall, along with many works of art.

From Washington Post

The illustration of Hardwick Hall shews oak panelling and decoration of a somewhat earlier, and also somewhat later time than Elizabeth, while the carved oak chairs are of Jacobean style.

From Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time by Litchfield, Frederick

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