Edensor

She may have deemed my punctuality worthy of remark because she lives in the middle of nowhere, in a hamlet called Edensor on the Chatsworth estate in Derbyshire.

The Duchess of Devonshire: 'When you are very old, you cry over some things, but not a lot' 2010

Her final set of rooms are in the Old Vicarage at Edensor, which she occupies with her butler Henry, who has been with the Devonshires for almost 50 years, an ultra-efficient secretary called Helen, who has been with her for almost 25, and large numbers of chickens, pictured on the cover of her book.

The Duchess of Devonshire: 'When you are very old, you cry over some things, but not a lot' 2010

It has sent me on a trail that has included the vast but altruistic endeavours of industrialists at Port Sunlight and Bournville, new villages built away from the sightlines of Dukes like Edensor at Chatsworth, and the more informal estate cottages with identical paintwork as seen in Buckminster, Leicestershire.

Concrete Evidence Peter Ashley 2008

It's as if part of you gets nearer to it yourself, and then you think the churchyard here [in Edensor] is very handy, whereas Andrew [her husband] had to come all the way from Chatsworth.

The Duchess of Devonshire: 'When you are very old, you cry over some things, but not a lot' 2010

Edensor-inn, close by Chatsworth, to survey the magnificence of which I had gone a considerable way out of my road to Scotland.

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

After all, JFK had practically been there only months before his death, visiting his sister's grave a handful of miles away in Edensor in the grounds of Chatsworth House.

A Place of Execution McDermid, Val 1999

Ensor is from the local Edensor, Cavendish was regularly Candish for the Elizabethans, while Cavenham in Suffolk has given the surname Canham.

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

But what was, in his own day, partly a respect paid to the maker of the famous _Dictionary_ and partly a curiosity about "the great Oddity," as the Edensor innkeeper called him, has in the course of the nineteenth century become a great deal more.

Dr. Johnson and His Circle John Cann Bailey 1897

We stopped at Edensor till Apr. 1st, and then started in chaises by way of Newark and Kettering (where we were in danger of being stopped by the snow), and arrived at Cambridge on Apr. 3rd.

Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896

After a little stay in Dublin I went to Armagh to visit Dr Robinson, and thence to Coleraine and the Giant's Causeway, returning by Belfast and Dublin to Edensor.

Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896