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    Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire is an architecturally significant country house from the Elizabethan era, a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house...
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    Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (née Hardwick; c. 1521  – 13 February 1608), known as Bess of Hardwick, of Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, was a notable figure...
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    walls and announced the owners' wealth. Hardwick Hall, for example, was proverbially described as "Hardwick Hall, more glass than wall." Many other smaller...
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    Hardwick Hall in Sedgefield, County Durham is a building of historical significance and is a Grade II listed building on the English Heritage Register...
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  • Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, home of Bess of Hardwick Hardwick Hall, County Durham Hardwick Hall Country Park Hardwick, County Durham Hardwick, Lincolnshire...
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    to be Hardwick Hall Country Park. The area is Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens, and the hall, presently the Hardwick Arms...
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    Sir John Thynne (ca. 1512–1580). He later designed Hardwick Hall, Wollaton Hall, Burton Agnes Hall, and other significant projects. Historically, a number...
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    family. The family previously owned Londesborough Hall, Yorkshire; Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire; Chiswick House, Middlesex; and two London mansions on Piccadilly:...
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    and Hardwick. It was privately printed and provided a history of the Cavendish family's two primary estates: Chatsworth House and Hardwick Hall; the...
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    Hardwick Hall Country Park is a park located in County Durham near Sedgefield. Since 7 October 1986, it has been registered on the Register of Parks and...
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    Cambridge in 1608. Hobbes died at another Cavendish family estate, Hardwick Hall, in December 1679. After his death, many of Hobbes' manuscripts were...
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    sister, Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury, went to Hardwick Hall for a day to see Bess of Hardwick. Shrewsbury wrote he "found a lady of great years,...
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    Smythson, who had by then completed Longleat, and was to go on to design Hardwick Hall. The general plan of Wollaton is comparable to these, and was widely...
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    Daily Mail, and Canada's Victoria Times Colonist. It is also used in Hardwick Hall in England on the fireplace of The High Great Chamber, also known as...
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    white-striped leaves C. majalis 'Green Tapestry', 'Haldon Grange', 'Hardwick Hall', 'Hofheim', 'Marcel', 'Variegata' and 'Vic Pawlowski's Gold' are other...
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    Bruce Hardwick (July 25, 1941 – November 16, 2013) was a right-handed ten-pin bowler and member of the Professional Bowlers Association. Hardwick joined...
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  • Some scenes set at Malfoy Manor in the Harry Potter films were shot at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire. Harry is raised from infancy by his aunt Petunia Dursley...
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    Dowager Duchess, widowed since 1938, spent her final years living at Hardwick Hall, which was made over to HM Treasury in 1956, in part payment of death...
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  • one was more passionate about displays of status than Bess of Hardwick." Hardwick Hall was erected by Bess, beginning in 1590—the year of her fourth,...
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    soon lost their function as dining rooms. Many great chambers survive. Hardwick Hall has a very large and little-altered example from around 1600. In many...
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    owned by the Cavendish family, and died at another Cavendish estate, Hardwick Hall in December 1679. He had been a friend of the family since 1608 when...
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    Herb garden at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, England, originally planted in the 1870s by Lady Louisa Egerton, recreated by the National Trust, largely following...
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    Douglas. David A. H. B. Taylor, 'Bess of Hardwick's Picture Collection', David Taylor & David Adshead, Hardwick Hall (Yale, 2016), pp. 80–82. Jane E. A. Dawson...
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    no. 987. Emma Slocombe, 'Embroidery and Needlework of Bess of Hardwick', Hardwick Hall (Yale, 2016), p. 118. Joseph Bain, Calendar of State Papers Scotland...
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    bed hangings that are held in Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk, England, made by Mary, Queen of Scots and Bess of Hardwick, during the period of Mary's captivity...
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    in the reign of Elizabeth I, after he became the much younger Bess of Hardwick's second husband. It was probably she who pursuaded Sir William to sell...
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    Worcestershire, Adam interior Haddon Hall, Derbyshire Ham House, London – compact and running from front to rear Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire – one of the largest...
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    Victoria and Albert Museum (Marian Hangings, Oxburgh Hangings) and Hardwick Hall. Weir 2008, p. 484 Fraser 1994, pp. 410–411; Guy 2004, p. 441; Wormald...
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    Hampton Gothic Tower at Goldney Hall, Bristol The Great Pagoda, Kew Gardens, London¨ Hadlow Tower, Hadlow, Kent Hardwick Hall Country Park, County Durham...
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    The Sea Dog Table is one of the treasures of Hardwick Hall, along with the Eglantine Table. It is an elaborately carved table from around 1570 or 1575...
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