*JANE AUSTEN*
DARCY. Pemberley. Derbyshire. I don't know about you, but these names immediately conjure up for me Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, a cult classic.
On the way home from the Lake District we headed toward the Peak District, and Lyme Park, the beautiful mansion used in the A & E version of Pride and Prejudice (Darcy's home.)
The driveway into the house was well over a mile long, sufficiently impressive with vast sweeping fields and trees.
"The Cage" a hunting lodge on the propertyAlso used for locking poachers up when they were caught on the estate!
The house is of course very grand~
But I laughed at the huge car park behind the home. It was a lovely day to visit and the grounds of "Pemberley" were overflowing with tourists!
We did tour the house (sorry, no photography allowed) which was beautiful. The movie crew only used the outside of this home for filming, the inside was filmed mostly at Chatsworth, another National Trust property.
Beautiful manicured gardens~
Could this be the pond that Darcy dove into before that fateful meeting with Elizabeth?
We hiked up to the "lantern"
A lovely afternoon~
Is it already time to head home?
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