[UK] Day trip to Chatsworth House, filming place of Pride and Prejudice

Have you watched or read PRIDE & PREJUDICE before?

It is a classic romantic English friction written by Jane Austen and it is reproduced into both drama and movie.

As a BIG FAN of PRIDE & PREJUDICE,of course I have read the book, seen the movie as well as the drama.

Finally, through going on exchange to the United Kingdom, I got to go to the place they said where Jane Austen got the inspiration to write about the HOUSE of MR DARCY,

also, the filming place of PRIDE & PREJUDICE,

the CHATSWORTH HOUSE in Peak District.

CHATSWORTH HOUSE is relatively close to Leeds, the place I am studying at the moment. 

It took me and my friend about 2 hours to get there.

The fastest method of course is to drive there directly, unfortunately we can't afford a car, so instead, we picked the second most convenient way to get there, took a train to Sheffield and then took a TM bus from Sheffield to Chatsworth House, each took us about 1 hour.

Taking the TM bus will give you a £2 discount!

After getting off from the bus, there was still anther 15 minutes walk till the House.

The picture above was Chatsworth Park, where we were on our way to the House.

After a long walk, we were finally able to see the HOUSE clearly!
And it came with a HUGE pitch with cute little lambs all over the place!

And after we crossed this bridge, we were finally there!

 This was the entrance to the HOUSE!
Such a beautiful backyard!
We got our tickets at the House with student discount plus the bus discount for £18 with access to both the HOUSE and the GARDEN.

It would be £2 cheaper if it's not Christmas season (from mid Nov onwards).

This year, they got the theme of ALICE IN THE WONDERLAND.

There were traces of ALICE everywhere.

It was cute, but to be honest, I would want to see the HOUSE without all those ALICE decoration.

Me and my friend were actually feeling upset about that quite a lot, we should have come earlier:(

This was the DINNING HALL, the place where they held PARTIES in the film, where LIZY AND DARCY danced!!!! 

Simply by envisioning the scene, we got so EXCITED already!

The staircase towards the upstairs!

The VERY GRAND STUDY!

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The house was BIG, but sadly we did not have much access, so we spent less than an hour in the house and then headed out for the EVEN BIGGER garden.

Indeed the garden was HUGE!
Looking from the garden to the HOUSE was so BEAUTIFUL!
How I wish I was living here for my whole life!
Just kidding, I am afraid I would die of boredom as I have always been the CITY GIRL type hahaa

They even got a MAZE in the ENORMOUS garden!
We had so much fun there and was stuck for a while in fact!

But we did make it to the END!

I don't want to spoil your fun, so I won't tell you how to do that hahaa

This is the CHATSWORTH CHRISTMAS MARKET!
Free entry and there was a lot to see.

We were simply focusing on the FOOD though hahaa
BUT this was definitely worth visiting since we did pay more for the Christmas season!

Love it with the lights on and the sunset in behind!

We left at around 5:10pm and it was ALL DARK!

We have REGRETED leaving so late since there was no lights on the road at all.

AND no phone signal either.

We walked on the main road in the DARK all the way back to the bus stop in panic.

We were so afraid and using "ADVENTURE" to sum up our trip was definitely not kidding.

But this place is absolutely a MUST-GO for PRIDE & PREJUDICE fans!
And better go in non-Christmas season and leave before the sunset completely!