2-913-831 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Stoney Middleton, the Seat of the late Lord Denman, 1854. Country house in Derbyshire. 'This picturesque and truly rural retreat was the paternal home of the late Lord [Thomas] Denman...Here the Castle Rock rises to a vast height, and obtains its name from the singular and turret-like form which its craggy projections and points assume. Here are warm springs, from which the Romans are supposed to have established a bath: the temperature of the Middleton waters is two degrees higher than that of the warmest springs at Matlock...the glory of Middleton is its dale, at the opening of which the rocks gradually rise in all their nakedness on the right, towering above the houses; while, on the left, the rugged slopes are thickly wooded between the habitations'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.