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Thread #138210 Message #3162985
Posted By: GUEST,Alan Whittle
31-May-11 - 04:56 AM
Thread Name: Spencer the Rover- gibbeted highwayman?
Subject: RE: Spencer the Rover- gibbeted highwayman?
There was a legend that the only reason you could go near Chatsworth House is that the public had to have access to seeeing a gibbet - which had to be near the scene of a crime.
i don't know if its true. No doubt some expert on Derbyshire folklore will have the full story. Its is said, that the Duke of Devonshire had an entire village relocated to build Chatsworth in the beautiful position that it is.