Many of the biggest and most impressive rooms in the house will be festooned with traditional decorations – but visitors can expect more than tinsel and baubles. Christmas at Chatsworth is a big ...

The theatrical Christmas installations at properties such as Chatsworth House and Blenheim Palace are ... The on-site Victoria Hotel has B&B doubles from £170. Hall entry not included.

Yet for the millions of people who have read Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and those who have spent hours gripped to historical dramas such as Downton Abbey, there is a whole other side to the English ...