Tudor/Elizabethan Era
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Hardwick: Ghosts,and the Woman Who Built It All
Derbyshire holds many secrets, but few places speak as clearly across the centuries as Hardwick. Tucked in the rolling countryside near Chesterfield, two halls sit side by side, one in ruin, the other a glittering statement of Elizabethan ambition. Both were the work of one formidable woman: Elizabeth Talbot, better known to history as Bess…